. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . y of Thyatira, as of that ofColosse and Laodicea (Acts xvi. 14;Colors ; Dress ; Lydia). The princi-pal deity of the city was Apollo, wor-shipped as the sun-god under the surname Tyr-imnas, and no doubt introduced by the Mace-donian colonists. (Idolatry.) A priestess of 1 The town is flourishing, with inhabitants. Theleeches used in medicine in Eastern Europe are foundhere. The scarlet cloth here dyed i9 said to be unsur-passed for its brilliant and permanent color (Rev. , in Fairbairn). THY Artemis (Diana) is also mentioned in the i
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . y of Thyatira, as of that ofColosse and Laodicea (Acts xvi. 14;Colors ; Dress ; Lydia). The princi-pal deity of the city was Apollo, wor-shipped as the sun-god under the surname Tyr-imnas, and no doubt introduced by the Mace-donian colonists. (Idolatry.) A priestess of 1 The town is flourishing, with inhabitants. Theleeches used in medicine in Eastern Europe are foundhere. The scarlet cloth here dyed i9 said to be unsur-passed for its brilliant and permanent color (Rev. , in Fairbairn). THY Artemis (Diana) is also mentioned in the in-scriptions. Another superstition, which existedat Thyatira, seems to have been brought thitherby some of the corrupted Jews of the dispersedtribes. A fane stood outside the walls, dedicated to TIB 1113 Sambalha—a sibyl sometimes called Chaldean, some-times Jewish, sometimes Persian—in the midst ofan enclosure designated the Chaldeans seems to illustrate the prophetess (Jeze-bel) in Rev. ii. 20, 21, which Grotius interprets. Thyat of the wife of the bishop. In Thyatira there was agreat amalgamation of races. But amalgamationof different races, in pagan nations, always went to-gether with a syncretism of different religions, everyrelation of life having its religious sanction. If thesibyl Sambatha was really a Jewess, lending her aidto this proceeding, and not discountenanced by theauthorities of the Jewish-Christian Church at Thya-
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