THE LETTER TO SEVEN CHURCHES IN ASIA.

1.4. John to the seven churches which are in Asia. The number seven is usually taken as an expression of fulness. St. John addresses here only the seven churches with which he, as one who lived in Ephesus, was in especially close and frequent contact. But in these seven he addresses at the same time the Christian Church as a whole. In the New Testament seven sons signify seven churches. For Paul also wrote to seven Churches (Rome, Corinth, Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi, Colossae and Thessalonica), and in the Apocalypse (1.4) seven churches are mentioned… The days of Genesis are seven, And the lampstand in the tabernacle has seven lamps (Exodus 25.31), and God’s eyes watching over the world are seven. And Zechariah’s stone has seven facets.