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Thyatira
Situated on the confines of Mysia and Ionia. According to Pliny it was known in earlier times as Pelopia and Euhippia. Its prosperity received a new impulse under the Roman Emperor Vespasian. The city contained a number of corporate guilds, as potters, tanners, weavers, robe-makers, and dyers. It was from Thyatira that Lydia the purple-seller of Philippi came, Paul's first European convert. The numerous streams of the adjacent country were full of leeches. The principal deity of the city was Apollo, worshipped as the Sun-God under the surname Tyrimnas. A shrine outside the walls was dedicated to Sambatha, a sibyl. The place was never of paramount political importance.
Son of God
Compare Son of man, Rev 1:13; Psa 2:7; Rev 19:13.
Who hath His eyes, etc.
See on Rev 1:14, Rev 1:15.
Thy works, and the last, etc.
Omit and, and read, as Rev., and that thy last works are more than the first.