Bible Location
Meaning: prince of joy · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Sardis was the capital of Lydia and one of the seven churches of Revelation. It is important because the church there received a warning about spiritual deadness beneath outward reputation. First appears in Rev 1:11.1
AI summary: Sardis matters because Revelation uses the city to expose the danger of appearance without living faith. The church has a name for life but is called to wake up and strengthen what remains. The cross references present Sardis as a city-church of reputation, warning, and the call to renewal.1
The metropolis of Lydia in Asia Minor. It stood on the river Pactolus, at the foot of mount Tmolus. Here was one of the seven Asiatic churches (Rev. 3:1-6). It is now a ruin called Sert-Kalessi. 3
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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.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.