8To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who died and returned to life.
9I know your affliction and your poverty — though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
— Revelation 2:8-9

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