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Francis Brett (bass​)​, TONUS PEREGRINUS - Seven Letters | Letter F: To the angel of the church in Philadelphia

from SEVEN LETTERS (AND OTHER SACRED MUSIC) by TONUS PEREGRINUS, Antony Pitts

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Probably the first-ever complete setting of the astonishing series of letters to seven early Christian churches in Asia minor (Turkey). Written over 1900 years ago, the letters are unique in their authorship and literary style, and striking in their individual detail within what is clearly a chronological and culminative structure. The actual sites of the seven churches are today as fascinating as they are diverse: a variety of ruins from ancient Mediterranean empires co-exist with the incongruent strata of modern society. Ephesus is one of the most stunningly preserved towns but is no longer inhabited, except by passing tourists and those who earn their living from them. The other sites range from the bustling city of Izmir (Smyrna) to obscure villages with a few glimpsed fragments of the past: in Alasehir (Philadelphia) four pillars from an early church building remain. The final site of Laodicea is, like Ephesus, now just a ruin, but one bleakly devoid even of tourists, and with a natural water supply that is still sickeningly lukewarm - the adjective applied to the Laodicean Christians themselves.

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To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no-one can shut, and what he shuts no-one can open. I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no-one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars - I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no-one will take your crown. Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
(Revelation 3:7-13)

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from SEVEN LETTERS (AND OTHER SACRED MUSIC), released June 1, 2005

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Cannes Classical Award-Winners – from Pérotin, Pärt (No.1 Album Passio), Pitts (The Naxos Book of Carols & Gramophone Editor’s Choice on Hyperion) to Mad World and more...

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