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Gentry argues that Nero Caesar is the "sixth king" presently ruling (Revelation 17:10) who functions in Revelation as the Beast. Gentry focuses on the foundation of most external evidence for the late-date hypothesis of the Book of Revelation, which is a statement by Irenaeus that 'the Apocalyptic vision was seen during Domitian's reign'. [1]
Irenaeus (/ ɪ r ɪ ˈ n eɪ ə s / or / ˌ aɪ r ɪ ˈ n iː ə s /; Ancient Greek: Εἰρηναῖος, romanized: Eirēnaîos; c. 130 – c. 202 AD) [4] was a Greek bishop noted for his role in guiding and expanding Christian communities in the southern regions of present-day France and, more widely, for the development of Christian theology by opposing Gnostic interpretations of Christian ...
In the case of Revelation, many modern scholars agree that it was written by a separate author, John of Patmos, c. 95, with some parts possibly dating to Nero's reign in the early 60s. [ 2 ] [ 12 ] El Greco 's c. 1605 painting Saint John the Evangelist shows the traditional author of the Johannine works as a young man.
The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament ... and a tradition dating from Irenaeus (c. 130 – c. 202 AD) ...
Irenaeus of Lyon. The exegesis of the Book of Revelation began in Anatolia by the Greeks as early as the beginning of the 2nd century (Papias of Hierapolis, bishop of Hierapolis), but it initially focused only on selected fragments of the Apocalypse.
At this point criticism of Chronology begins: Common understanding says, referring to Irenaeus (Haer. V,30,3), that the Revelation to John was written near the end of the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian (81-96). Consequently, either the Revelation has been dated some three centuries too old, or the reign of Domitian has.
Irenaeus apparently quotes from 21 of the New Testament books and names the author he thought wrote the text. [84] He mentions the four gospels, Acts, the Pauline epistles with the exception of Hebrews and Philemon, as well as the first epistle of Peter, and the first and second epistles of John, and the book of Revelation.
P. Oxyrhynchus 405 – fragment of Against Heresies from c. 200 AD. Against Heresies (Ancient Greek: Ἔλεγχος καὶ ἀνατροπὴ τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως, Elenchos kai anatropē tēs pseudōnymou gnōseōs, "On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis"), sometimes referred to by its Latin title Adversus Haereses, is a work of Christian theology ...
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