Revelation:2:12

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rwp @Revelation:2:12 @{In Pergamum } (\en Pergam “i \). In a north-easterly direction from Smyrna in the Caicus Valley , some fifty-five miles away , in Mysia , on a lofty hill , a great political and religious centre . Ramsay ( _Op . cit . _ , p . 281 ) calls it "the royal city , the city of authority ." Eumenes II (B .C . 197-159 ) extended it and embellished it with many great buildings , including a library with 200 ,000 volumes , second only to Alexandria . The Kingdom of Pergamum became a Roman province B .C . 130 . Pliny termed it the most illustrious city of Asia . Parchment (\charta Pergamena \) derived its name from Pergamum . It was a rival of Ephesus in the temples to Zeus , Athena , Dionysos , in the great grove Nicephorium (the glory of the city ). Next to this was the grove and temple of Asklepios , the god of healing , called the god of Pergamum , with a university for medical study . Pergamum was the first city in Asia (A .D . 29 ) with a temple for the worship of Augustus (Octavius Caesar ). Hence in the Apocalypse Pergamum is a very centre of emperor-worship "where Satan dwells " (2:13 |). Here also the Nicolaitans flourished (2:15 |) as in Ephesus (2:6 |) and in Thyatira (2:20f .|). Like Ephesus this city is called temple-sweeper (\ne “koros \) for the gods . {The sharp two-edged sword } (\t ˆn romphaian t ˆn distomon t ˆn oxeian \). This item repeated from strkjv @1:16 | in the same order of words with the article three times (the sword the two-mouthed the sharp ) singling out each point .

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