![]() If he himself had not been a hearer of St. Another witness of about the same time is Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis, a place not far from Ephesus. 81), held in Ephesus, the residence of the apostle, we know that he admitted the authenticity of the Apocalypse. Eccl., IV, xviii, 8), as well as from his dialogue with the Jew, Tryphon (c. Justin Martyr, about the middle of the second century. Approaching more closely the apostolic age we have the testimony of St. They contented themselves with an allegorical interpretation of certain passages but never ventured to impugn its authority. Their opinion is all the more valuable as they had no sympathy with the millennial teaching of the book. They were both scholars and men of critical judgment. In Egypt, Clement and Origen believed without hesitation in its Joannine authorship. The Vetus Itala, moreover, the standard Latin version in Italy and Africa during the third century, contained the Apocalypse. Peter, but with the clause, quam quidam ex nostris in ecclesid, legi nolunt. John, and the Muratorian Fragment (a document about the beginning of the third century) enumerates it along with the other canonical writings, adding, it is true, the apocryphal Apocalypse of St. In Italy, Bishop Hippolytus assigns it to the Apostle St. ![]() In Africa, Tertullian frequently quotes Revelation without apparent misgivings as to its authenticity (C. In Gaul, Irenaeus firmly believes in its Divine and Apostolic authority (Adversus Haer., V, 30). In Asia, Melito, Bishop of Sardis, one of the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse, acknowledged the “ Revelation of John” and wrote a commentary on it (Eusebius, Hist. At the end of the second century the Apocalypse was acknowledged by the historical representatives of the principal churches as the genuine work of John the Apostle. But from tradition we know that the Seer in the Apocalypse was John the Apostle, the son of Zebedee, the Beloved Disciple of Jesus. The Seer does not further specify his personality. And again, “I, John, your brother and your partner in tribulation, was in the island, which is called Patmos, for the word of God” (i, 9). “John to the seven churches which are in Asia” (Ap., i, 4). ![]() Although a Christian work, the Apocalypse belongs to a class of literature dealing with eschatological subjects and much in vogue among the Jews of the first century before, and after, Christ.ĪUTHENTICITY.-The author of the Apocalypse calls himself John. Protestants call it the Book of Revelation, the title which it bears in the King James Version. Apocalypse, from the verb apokalupto, to reveal, is the name given to the last book in the Bible. ![]()
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