Towards Understanding Revelation

Category: Revelation 1:1

  • 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…

  • 1/7/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 5

    1/7/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 5

    And still in the 19th century: “The Apocalypse is the mystery of Christ, or the mystical account of His kingdom from the day of Pentecost till the day of Judgment; not strictly predictive, but interweaving the past, present, and future as seen of God. There is a Divine dignity in the opening words, as in…