The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia
W. M. Ramsay's collected correspondence containing practical wisdom and spiritual counsel.
40 Chapters
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1: Many writers on many occasions have perceived and described the
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Chapter 2: While writing springs from a natural feeling of the human mind and must
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Chapter 3: In the preceding chapter we have described the circumstances amid which
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Chapter 4: One of the most remarkable parts of that strange and difficult book,
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chapter 4: the sense of reality, the living vigorous instinct, from which the
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Chapter 5: Literature
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Chapter 6: In attempting to get some clear idea with regard to the symbolism
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chapter 26: The use of colour here as symbolical is illustrated by the custom of
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Chapter 7: In what relation did the writer of the Seven Letters stand to the Asian
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Chapter 8: Closely related to this authority claimed and exercised by the writer
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Chapter 9: Apocalypse
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Chapter 10: The Roman Province of Asia included most of the western half of Asia
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Chapter 11: Spirit
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Chapter 12: In chapter 11 we recognised how important an element the Jewish
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chapter 29: In each city where a body of Jewish citizens was formed, it was
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Chapter 13: In one respect Ignatius is peculiarly instructive for the study of the
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Chapter 14: What thou seest, write in a book, and send to the Seven Churches;
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Chapter 15: The analogous case, quoted from Dr. Hort in the conclusion of the
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chapter 6: the steady, rapid development of early Christian organisation, must
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Chapter 16: Each of the Seven Letters opens, as letters in ancient time always did,
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Chapter 17: The subject of the present chapter is the early Roman city, the Ephesus
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chapter 25ff: Ephesian religion even at that early time (see chapter 10).
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Chapter 18: These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right
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chapter 13: memory of his pagan days caused a lasting sense of shame in his mind,
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Chapter 19: Smyrna was founded as a Greek colony more than a thousand years before
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Chapter 20: These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and
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Chapter 21: Pergamum was, undoubtedly, an ancient place, whose foundation reaches
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chapter 10: the Commune. As the oldest temple of the Asian cult it is far more
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Chapter 22: These things saith he that hath the sharp-pointed two-edged sword.
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Chapter 23: Thyatira was situated in the mouth of a long vale which extends north
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chapter 10: favourable situation for trade, though it was not till the second
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Chapter 24: These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like a flame of
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Chapter 25: Sardis was one of the great cities of primitive history: in the Greek
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chapter 11: the ancient Greek spirit, but the new form which the Greek spirit had
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Chapter 26: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the
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Chapter 27: Philadelphia was the only Pergamenian foundation among the Seven
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Chapter 28: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath
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Chapter 29: Laodicea was founded by Antiochus II (261-246 B.C.). As a Seleucid
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Chapter 30: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the
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Chapter 31: As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and