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Seven Churches in Asia

Seven Churches in Asia addressed in the preface of the Book of Revelation . They are the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia (Lydia), and Laodicea (Phrygia). They are in W Asia Minor.

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Seven Churches

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 2000, originally published by Oxford University Press 2000. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Seven Churches. The Churches in Asia Minor to which the letter incorporated in Rev. (1–3) was addressed, namely Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.

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Churches, seven Christian communities in the province of Asia. The last book of the Bible, the Revelation to John, also known sometimes as the Apocalypse, is addressed to seven particular Churches. There were other Churches too, not mentioned, such as those at Colossae (Col. 1: 2) and Troas (Acts 20: 5–12), but the author chooses seven because that is the number of completeness (the creation by God in Gen. was completed in seven days) and so these seven represent the whole Church. Considerable local knowledge is, however, displayed about the seven selected: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea (Rev. 1: 11).

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