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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Hierapolis
In the Lycus Valley of Phrygia, alongside Colossae and Laodicea, and Epaphras worked hard for the church there. Its hot springs left white terraces that still draw people, at modern Pamukkale in Turkey. Early tradition says the apostle Philip died in the city.
In the Lycus Valley of Phrygia, alongside Colossae and Laodicea, and Epaphras worked hard for the church there. Its hot springs left white terraces that still draw people, at modern Pamukkale in Turkey. Early tradition says the apostle Philip died in the city.
Hierapolis was a city in the Lycus Valley of Phrygia, paired with Colossae and Laodicea as one of three churches Paul addresses through his letter to the Colossians, though he had not visited any of them personally; Epaphras is named as the one who worked hard on behalf of all three (Colossians 4:12-13). The city was famous in antiquity, as it still is today, for the white travertine terraces formed by its mineral hot springs, now the site of modern Pamukkale in Turkey. In 2011 archaeologists excavating there identified what they believe are the remains of a martyrium built over the tomb of the apostle Philip, who according to early Christian tradition died in the city.
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- panorama of the theater at Hierapolis
- Colossians 4:13
