Author: Robert Bransby COOPER
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Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857861018
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Author: John Chappel Woodhouse
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 696

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Author: Leon Morris
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ISBN: 9780851118697
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Ian Boxall
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Replacing George B. Caird's earlier volume, fellow Oxford scholar Ian Boxall's new edition in this popular series offers a clear and lucid study of St. John's apocalypse. Arising out of a critical awareness of the historical and theological issues surrounding the interpretation of Revelation, Boxall's exposition opens with an enlightening introduction to the first-century context of this difficult book. Now available in paperback.

Author: Thomas Whittemore
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Pierre Prigent
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ISBN: 9783161473999
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In this work, published 20 years after his first commentary on the Apocalypse, Pierre Prigent deals once again with the Apocalypse, but this time with the numerous exegetical, historical and sociological studies which were published during the last 20 years and are significant for research in this field, in particular for methodology and Jewish literature. Pierre Prigent focuses on the historical and the religious contexts. In the historical context, he describes how in the first century it was revealed to the churches in Asia Minor that the highest reality of living things and objects was given its justification through the work of God in Jesus Christ. This revelation shook the history of the church and of the world. In the religious context, the author deals with the eschatological revelations against the backdrop of Judaism.Faced with the mass of information which needed to be taken into account, he resolved to proceed in two directions: Everything that concerns the exegesis of specific texts has been introduced at the appropriate places in the commentary, which has resulted in a great number of additions and corrections and considerable elimination. Often the work of biblical scholars has taken a more synthetic turn. Their conclusions, which are then of interest for the interpretation of several passages or even of the entire book, would be out of place in the flow of the commentary. It so happens that the questions addressed are often of primary importance and sometimes are the object of hot debate. Therefore the author decided to give an overview of the current state of research on the questions leading to such conclusions to give an adequate account of these synthetic analyses.

Author: James J. L. Ratton
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Author: Alexander Smyth
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Robert Bransby Cooper
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230225562
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Languages : en
Pages : 48

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... times, and half a time, or one thousand two hundred and sixty days of years, from the face of the serpent. The dragon, or serpent, finding that he is no longer permitted to reign in propria persona, employs his devices to raise up another power, apparently connected with the Church, but subject to his dominion, to whom he may transfer his authority. And now arises from the sea, or out of the commotion of the times, a new beast, which the woman at first does not recognize as the ancient dragon. It bears the appearance of a leopard or panther, with seven heads and ten horns, with feet like a bear, and a mouth (or voice) like a lion; who is in reality an agent of the dragon, and to whom he resigns his seat, power, and authority. By the term beast is to be understood, in the prophetic language, a tyrannical idolatrous empire. The four kingdoms which were seen in the visions of Daniel, appeared as four beasts rising out of the sea. The fourth beast, or the Roman empire, is described as very strong, and terrible, and breaking in pieces with its iron teeth all that withstood it, and stamping the residue of the nations under its feet, and in conclusion it is said to have ten horns. This is the fourth beast, which is here seen by St. John, rising from the sea in its last state; and it is to be remarked, that in its appearance it partakes in some particulars of the character of the three former beasts. It was like unto a leopard, which was the form of the third beast, or Grecian empire. It had feet like a bear, which personified the second beast, or Persian empire; and it spake as a lion, which was the symbol of the first or the Babylonian empire. The seven heads allude (as was before observed) both to the seven hills on which Rome was situated, ..