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In this and its companion volume (The Revelation of John, Volume 2, Chapters 6 through 22), William Barclay makes the most difficult book in the Bible easier to understand. In his introduction he examines areas such as the characteristics of apocalyptic literature and the nature of Caesar worship. John was, as Barclay shows, "soaked and saturated" in the Old Testament, and most of the imagery he...

As Sir William Ramsay says: ‘It only needed peace to make Laodicea a great commercial and financial centre.’ That peace came with the dominion of Rome. When the Roman peace gave it its opportunity, it became, as Pliny, the governor of Bithynia, called it, ‘a most distinguished city’. Laodicea had certain characteristics which have left their mark on the letter written to it. (1) It was a great banking and financial centre. When Cicero was travelling in Asia Minor, it was at Laodicea that he cashed
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