A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor, Volume 1 |
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Abydos according to Strabo Æolian Amisus Anab ancient Antiochus antiquity APOLL appears Appian Arrian Asia Minor Athen Athenæus Athenians Bithynia Caïcus called cape Cappadocia Carians Caystrus celebrated coast coins colony Croesus Cyzicus distance district Ephesus epigraph Euxine flourishing fluvius Geogr geographer Greek Halys Hellespont Heraclea Hermus Herod Herodotus Hierocles historian Homer Ionian island king lake latter Lydia Marcian mentioned miles Milesians Miletus Mithr Mithridates modern mount mountain Mysia Nicæa occupied Paphlagonia Pausan Pausanias Pergamum Peripl Persian Phrygia plain Plin Pliny Plut poet Polyb Pontus port probably promontory Propontis province Ptolemy reckons reign Rhyndacus river Roman ruins Sardes Scyl Scylax Sestini Sinope situated sixty stadia Smyrna speaks Steph Strabo Synecd Table Itinerary temple territory thence Thracian Thuc Thucydides tion town Trapezus Travels Troas Trojan Troy vicinity VIII writers Xenophon δὲ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ οἱ τε
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Page 447 - Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die : for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Page 370 - So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth. And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Page 429 - And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
Page 368 - He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
Page 447 - And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write ; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars ; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Page 369 - Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
Page 457 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Page 447 - He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Page 370 - After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. 22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
Page 456 - And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth...