City of Brotherly Love

Sun Oct 8 13:21:56 UTC 2006

> On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>> the City of Brotherly Love for Sunday's game. Any earlier cites for this
>> on America's Historical Newspapers? ... ...

The translation of Philadelphia as "brotherly love" predates Penn's
founding of
the city, in Ingelo, Nathaniel, 1621?-1683.
Bentivolio and Urania in four bookes / by N.I. D.D.  1660
Bib Name / Number: Wing / I175 and I179
No. pages: 2 v. ([30], 283; [20], 385, [17] p.)  Index entry: Philadelphia,
Brotherly Love. [EEBO]

As a guess, Penn may have been influenced by the account of Philadelphia, Asia
Minor, in Apocalypse of John 3:7 f.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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