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Title: New Testament hours
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Geikie, Cunningham, 1824-1906
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York : James Pott & Company
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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saith to the seven churches. Hethat overcometh shall not be hurt of the second, eternal,death, after that of the body.^ The city of Pergamum or Pergamos, was the capital of thekingdom of the same name, till it was incorporated in theEoman Empire and made a Eoman province, under the nameof Asia, one hundred and thirty-one years before Christ.It still survives as the modern Bergamah; a very poor place,amidst the hovels, burial-grounds, khans, and mosques ofwhich one meets the ruins of triumphal arches and bridges, ^ Verses 10, 13. ^ -^.^^^^^ x. 28 ; Rev. xx. 6, 14 ; xxi. 8. 212 THE APOCALYPSE a palace, an amphitheatre, and much else, scattered over awide circuit; the ghosts of a magnificence long departed.Lying on the navigable stream of the Caicus, three milesfrom the sea, the ancient city was embosomed among hills,the highest of which, in the city limits, became its acro-polis, and was crowned by a strong castle,—the storehouseof the immense treasures of Lysimachus, one of the high
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Pergamos, officers attached to the personal staff of Alexander theGreat, and virtual founder of Pergamos. Below this, facingthe south-east of the acropolis, there is still a wall ofhewn granite at least a hundred feet high, let into therock behind, supporting vast substructions, once forming aplatform for a temple of Jupiter, which was unrivalled forgrandeur of situation; being visible, at once from the vast THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE 213 plain of the Caicus valley, and from the ^gean Sea. )Norwas it less famous for the splendour of its architecture,though the Christians of the Apostolic age looked on it\\ ith horror, as now given up to the worship of the Eomanemperor, whose statue was erected in it and worshipped;making the temple, in their eyes, the very throne ofSatan, of whom the emperor, thus deified, was to themthe visible incarnation. There was, besides, a famoustemple of Esculapius, already ancient, on the slopes of theacropolis, visited from far and near as a great

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