{"id":1271,"date":"2016-10-10T20:41:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2016-10-10T20:41:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:41:43","slug":"on-sardis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/on-sardis\/","title":{"rendered":"On Sardis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sardis: \u201cHe who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments &#8230;\u201d (<em>The Letters to the Seven Churches<\/em>, pg. 13).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSardis \u2026 the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia \u2026 was situated in the middle Hermus valley at the foot of Mt. Tmolus, a steep and lofty spur of which formed the citadel. \u2026 Once at least, under the emperor Tiberius, in A.D. 17 it was destroyed by an earthquake; but it was always rebuilt, and was one of the great cities of western Asia Minor till the later Byzantine time. \u2026 Its importance was due, first to its military strength, secondly to its situation on an important highway, leading from the interior to the Aegean coast, and thirdly to its commanding the wide and fertile plain of the Hermus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cSardis,\u201d <em>The Encyclopaedia Britannica<\/em>, Vol. 24, p. 217.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1272\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1272\" src=\"http:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Sardes_Sardeis_mozaik_detail_6.jpg\" alt=\"Ancient Mosaic from Sardis | revelationrevealed.online\" width=\"1280\" height=\"848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Sardes_Sardeis_mozaik_detail_6.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Sardes_Sardeis_mozaik_detail_6-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Sardes_Sardeis_mozaik_detail_6-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Sardes_Sardeis_mozaik_detail_6-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ancient Mosaic from Sardis | By Mbengisu (Own work) [<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>], via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sardis: \u201cHe who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments &#8230;\u201d (The Letters to the Seven Churches, pg. 13). \u201cSardis \u2026 the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia \u2026 was situated in the middle Hermus valley at the foot of Mt. Tmolus, a steep and lofty spur of which formed the citadel. \u2026 Once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-revelation-2-3","7":"category-the-things-which-are","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}