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Another point about Philadelphia is her outside position. She is not of Thyatira, not of Sardis, not of Laodicea. In these circumstances she may be completely ignored — not recognised as having any place in the Christian economy. There is a formula here which we find also in. Smyrna: — "Them of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews, and are not, but lie." Smyrna was comforted against their persecution; Philadelphia has more: there comes a time when the great professing body will be forced to acknowledge the Philadelphians she had despised. "Behold I will cause that they shall come and shall do homage before thy feet, and shall know that I have loved thee."