Towards Understanding Revelation

Tag: Nero

  • 4/16/25 DATING THE GOSPELS, PART 4: THE BOOK OF MARK

    We’re starting again with Harnack’s 1911 book called THE DATE OF THE ACTS AND OF THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS.  He begins by calling on Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918, German biblical scholar) to support his statement that Mark 13 indicates that the book must have been written before 70 AD. I find this interesting because he did not…

  • 8/29/22 FROM THE INTRODUCTIONS OF 18TH CENTURY BOOKS ON REVELATION, PART 1

    8/29/22 FROM THE INTRODUCTIONS OF 18TH CENTURY BOOKS ON REVELATION, PART 1

    Good morning! I’ve got a fair amount of material from the 18th century, I’ll be looking to pare it down a bit, but it’s still going to take more than one post.  Let’s start with Matthew Henry. Probably you know his big Bible commentary, but he wrote more on Revelation than is in my copy…