Mount Cadmus rose behind the city, with its
almost perpendicular side, and a huge chasm in the mountain was the
outlet of a torrent which flowed into the river Lycus, on which the city
was built, standing not far from the junction of this river with the
Moeander.
"One of the two men who bore these letters was a slave. His name was
Onesimus. He robbed his master, Philemon, of Colosse, fled to Rome,
heard Paul preach, was converted, and now by the Apostle is sent back to
his master with a letter, in charge of Tychicus, who, with this
Onesimus, was the bearer of a letter to the Colossian Church.
"Let us attend the church-meeting. The pastor, Archippus, presides.
Epaphras is at Rome.
"What an interesting company do we behold as we sit near the pastor's
table, in full view of the audience! The inhabitants of this place were
noted for the worship of Bacchus, and Cybele, mother of the gods; hence
her name, _Phrygia Mater_. Every kind of licentious language and actions
was practised in the worship of these deities, accompanied with a
frantic rage called orgies, from the Greek word for _rage_. This was a
part of their religious worship. From among such people, converts had
been made to Christianity, together with some who had been turned from
Judaism.
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