Encyclopedia of The Bible – Eyesalve
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Eyesalve

EYESALVE (κολλούριον, G3141; variant in many MSS, κολλύριον). The word appears in the context of the address to the church at Laodicea (Rev 3:18). The term is a diminutive of the Gr. kollura, “little cake,” a very common dosage form in the Hel. world. It has been suspected that this particular prescription for the spiritual blindness at Laodicea had some special reference to a product of that place, but such assumptions lack sufficient evidence to be more than speculations.