Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Men of Heroic Caliber

There were Christians in Smyrna who were men of such heroic caliber that the word of the Risen Christ to them was a word of unadulterated praise.
In a city where the splendor of heathen worship might well have suffocated the life out of the Christians, in a city where the price of men looked on the humble Christians with arrogant contempt, in a city where every Christian was between the devil of the demands of Caesar worship and the deep sea of Jewish slander and malignancy, there were Christians who were faithful unto death.
~ William Barclay, Letters to the Seven Churches

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