- Φιλαδέλφεια
- Φιλαδέλφεια, ας, ἡ (so N.; other edd. Φιλαδελφία, Ign., MPol) Philadelphia, a city in Lydia (west central Asia Minor; this Philadelphia mentioned in Strabo 12, 8 p. 578; Ptolem. 5, 2, 17; Ael. Aristid. 26, 96 K. al.; ins) under Roman rule fr. 133 B.C. Significant as a seat of Hellenistic culture. The sixth letter of Rv 1:11; 3:7 and one epistle of Ign., IPhld ins, are addressed to the Christian community there. MPol 19:1 mentions eleven martyrs fr. Phil. who were condemned together w. Polycarp in Smyrna.—An inhabitant of the city was called Φιλαδελφεύς title of IPhld (s. Hdb. z. NT on this).—Lghtf., The Apost. Fathers, Part II vol. II2 1889, 237ff; KBuresch, Aus Lydien 1898; CB I/1, 196ff, Letters ch. 27f; VSchultze, Altchristl. Städte u. Landschaften II/2, 1926; Pauly-W. XIX, 2091–93; CHemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting ’89 (’86), 153–77; Kl. Pauly IV, 733f; BHHW III, 1450f.—New Docs 3, 56 (lit.) M-M.
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