File:New Testament hours (1894) (14765243724).jpg

Identifier: newtestamenthour04geik4 (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
s of ancient splendour lie broadcast over its site,many fragments of marble pillars still remaining; not afew converted into drinking troughs for flocks and cattle,or put at the mouth of wells. The town still containsabout 24,000 inhabitants, and, in the lazy Turkish way,has some business, but nothing in comparison to what itshould have in such a glorious situation, with its flowingwaters, its embaying hills, and its splendid climate. By whom the church in Thyatira had been founded isnot told us, for the greatest benefactors of mankind have,as a rule, little more reward on earth than the conscious-ness of having tried to do their duty. Was it Lydia,returning to her own town, who sowed the seeds in itof the faith she had so zealously embraced at Philippi ?In any case, the brotherhood evidently consisted mainlyof heathen converts, for it is hard to imagine pure Jewsas eating things sacrificed to idols.^ Jesus, who speaksthrough John, had already been described by him as seen, 1 Ver. 20.
Text Appearing After Image:
•^ THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE 221 in vision, as like unto a son of man, but with eyes asa flame of fire, and feet like burnished brass.^ Now,however, while repeating this He calls Himself expressly, the Son of God, as was fitting, since He is about tothreaten the local evil-doers with the terrors of His divinepower.2 His flame-like eyes pierce through all things, asthe awful Judge, and His feet, like shining brass, will treadto dust all that is unholy or opposed. He has much topraise, for He knows their works of many kinds—theirlove to God and man, their faith, their service in allministries in the church and the community, and theirpatient endurance; in all which they were steadily ad-vancing, since their latest works were more than the first.They were, however, guilty of suffering a corrupting teacher—a woman,—whom He denounces by the hateful name ofJezebel, the introducer of Baal worship into Israel,—to leadsome of their number astray. She even claimed to be ap

Note About Images