The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . Rhodes (rose).St. Paul touched at Rhodes on his re-turn voyage to Syria from the third mis-sionary journey (Acts xxi. 1). FromRhodes he sailed eastward to was one of the most famousGreek cities, on an island of the Mediter-ranean, south-west from Asia for the great Brazen Colossus,one of the seven wonders of the world, Coin of Clazomene. Clazoraene, like Ephesus, was sit-uated in the province of Ionia, onthe Ionian peninsula. All this neigh-borhood was probably familiar toPaul during his long s
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . Rhodes (rose).St. Paul touched at Rhodes on his re-turn voyage to Syria from the third mis-sionary journey (Acts xxi. 1). FromRhodes he sailed eastward to was one of the most famousGreek cities, on an island of the Mediter-ranean, south-west from Asia for the great Brazen Colossus,one of the seven wonders of the world, Coin of Clazomene. Clazoraene, like Ephesus, was sit-uated in the province of Ionia, onthe Ionian peninsula. All this neigh-borhood was probably familiar toPaul during his long stay at Ephe-sus. The inhabitants of Clazomenewere devoted to the worship ofApollo, and their beautiful Greekcoins bear on the obverse his effigy,and on the reverse, a swan, the birddeemed sacred to Apollo. which spanned its harbor. (See Table,page 600.) The coin bore the name rose-flower, with the name of the island onone side, while on the other appeared the head of Apollo radiating like the sun.
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