χαλκολιβ. Some local allusion to the bronze-work for which Thyatira was famous. Son of God (cf. Kattenbusch ii. 563 f.) is practically an equivalent for messiah (Luke 4:41), or for the superhuman personality of Jesus as divinely commissioned (cf. Grill, pp. 76 77) to carry out God's purpose for his people (cf. John 10:36). But the expression has pagan as well as Jewish colouring; and there is undoubtedly an apologetic allusion to the similar terminology of the Imperial cultus (cf. Introd. § 6).

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