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The Letter to Sardis emphasizes the need for inward reality behind the church’s outward show (Rev.3:1 “ You have the name of being alive,and you are dead “).Sardis was the converging point of several inland roadssituated in a fertile valley at the foot of Mount Tmolus.However,its ancient history was more distinguished than its modern.Once a splendid and wealthy city,but after severe defeats,it fell greatly.Its religious history,like its civil,belonged to the past.The ruins unearthed give a glimpse of the city’s beautiful past that is now dead. |