Philadelphia

      Philadelphia

      meaning: love of a brother

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    Dictionary Summary: Brotherly love, a city of Lydia in Asia Minor, about 25 miles south-east of Sardis. It was the seat of one of the “seven churches” ([Rev. 3:7-12](/rev#Rev.3.7)). It came into the possession of the Turks in A.D. 1392. It has several times been nearly destroyed by earthquakes. It is still a town of considerable size, called Allahshehr, “the city of God.” 2

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      1.11 3.7 

    Figure1:  A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages   (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.) 

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        Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0. 

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        M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0. 

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        Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.