Towards Understanding Revelation

Category: 20th Century

  • 1/21/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 7

    1/21/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 7

    We start today with: “The name by which this book would be known to its earliest readers among the Christians of Asia Minor would be ‘the Apocalypse,’ or ‘the Apocalypse of John.’ This is the name which it bears in the original Greek, not only in the ‘title,’ which is later than the book, but…

  • 1/13/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 6

    1/13/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 6

    We’ll start today with a simple observation: “The Revelation…The word, according to Jerome on Gal. i.11,12, is peculiar to the Scriptures, and is not used by Greek classical writers.” [from THE CAMBRIDGE BIBLE FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES: THE REVELATION OF S. JOHN THE DIVINE WITH NOTES AND INTRODUCTION, by William Henry Simcox, 1891] But I…