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The Letter to Philadelphia reminds of the need for evangelistic outreach to others (Rev. 3:8 “ Behold,I have set before you and open door “).Like Sardis,it was in the fertile region of the Lydian kingdom.The severe earthquake of AD 17,which devastated Sardis almost completely,demolished Philadelphia.According to Prof. William Ramsey,the intentionof the city’s founder had been “to make it a center of the Graeco-Asiatic civilization and a means to spreading the Greek language and manners.It was a missionary city from the beginning.” |