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Come to me Soon
2Timothy 4.9-22


One of the accidental spin-offs from early Christianity was the invention of the book.

There may have been some primitive books before, but these were different. Most writing in the ancient world was either on clay tablets or on parchment scrolls, rolled up on a stick at either end. They were cumbersome and difficult to use. You couldn’t keep two passages open at once. Nor could you get very much material on to a single scroll. At the most, a scroll might contain a book about as long as one of the gospels...

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