Revelation
The Book of the Revelation of John is the last in the
collection of documents which constitute the New Testament
(the second of the two major divisions of the Christian
Bible). It is also known as Revelation, Revelations, the Book
of Revelation, the Apocalypse of John, and the Apocalypse.
These titles come from the Greek, apokalypsis, meaning ...
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LITERATURE
The last book of the New Testament. It professes to be the
record of prophetic visions given by Jesus Christ to John,
while the latter was a prisoner, "for the word of God and
the testimony of Jesus" (Rev 1:9), in PATMOS (which see), a
small rocky island in the Aegean, about 15 miles West of
Ephesus. Its precursor in the Old Testame...
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LITERATURE
I. The Nature of Revelation.
1. The Religion of the Bible the Only Supernatural Religion:
The religion of the Bible is a frankly supernatural
religion. By this is not meant merely that, according to it,
all men, as creatures, live, move and have their being in
God. It is meant that, according to it, God has intervened
extraordinarily...
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III. The Modes of Revelation.
1. Modes of Revelation:
Theophany may be taken as the typical form of "external
manifestation"; but by its side may be ranged all of those
mighty works by which God makes Himself known, including
express miracles, no doubt, but along with them every
supernatural intervention in the affairs of men, by means of
whic...
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the last book of the New Testament. It is often called the
Apocalypse, which is its title in Greek, signifying
"Revelation,"
1. Canonical authority and authorship. --The inquiry
as to the canonical authority of the Revelation resolves
itself into a question of authorship. Was St. John the
apostle and evangelist the writer of the Revelation? T...
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The Apocalypse, the closing book and the only prophetical
book
of the New Testament canon. The author of this book
was
undoubtedly John the apostle. His name occurs four
times in the
book itself (1:1, 4, 9; 22:8), and there is every
reason to
conclude that the "John" here mentioned was the
apostle. In a
manuscript of about the twelfth cen...
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Authorship and authenticity. The writer calls himself John
(Revelation 1:1; Revelation 1:4; Revelation 1:9; Revelation
22:8). Justin Martyr (Dial. 308, A.D. 139-161) quotes it as
the apostle John's work, referring to the millennium and
general resurrection and judgment. Justin held his
controversy with the learned Jew Trypho at Ephesus, John's...
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