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Banishment during this time period was a common punishment for crimes such as practicing magic and/or astrology. To the Roman Empire, prophecy was an identical offense whether Pagan, Christian, or Jewish, as the Romans viewed it as a threat to their power. For this reason, St. John of Patmos, among countless others, were sent to Patmos to serve ...
John of Patmos (also called John the Revelator, John the Divine, John the Theologian; Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Θεολόγος, romanized: Iōannēs ho Theologos) is the name traditionally given to the author of the Book of Revelation. Revelation 1:9 states that John was on Patmos, [1] an Aegean island off the coast of Roman Asia ...
Patmos (Greek: Πάτμος, pronounced [ˈpatmos]) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. It is famous as the location where John of Patmos received the visions found in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament, and where the book was written. One of the northernmost islands of the Dodecanese complex, [ 3 ] Patmos has a population of 3,283 ...
John the Apostle[ 12 ] (Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης; Latin: Ioannes[ 13 ]c.6 AD – c.100 AD; Ge'ez: ዮሐንስ;), also known as Saint John the Beloved and, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Saint John the Theologian, [ 14 ] was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Generally listed as the youngest apostle, he ...
According to Revelation 1:11, on the island of Patmos in the far east of the Aegean Sea, Jesus instructed John of Patmos to " [w]rite in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea." [ a ] The churches in this context refers to the community ...
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The Vision of John on Patmos by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld 1860. The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible). Written in Koine Greek, its title is derived from the first word of the text: apokalypsis, meaning 'unveiling' or 'revelation'.
The traditional historicist view of the Seven Seals spanned the time period from John of Patmos to Early Christendom. Protestant scholars such as Campegius Vitringa, [62] Alexander Keith, and Christopher Wordsworth did not limit the timeframe to the 4th century. Some have even viewed the opening of the Seals right into the early modern period. [63]