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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 ...
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."
Russian Orthodox icon of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, 18th century (Iconostasis from the Church of the Transfiguration, Kizhi Monastery. The Apocalypse of John the Little begins similar to that of the Book of Revelation when an angel presents a scroll to John concerning the suffrage of humanity at the eschaton, and a heavenly voice elaborating in detail the eschaton to John.
The eschatology of the book is rather unusual. The end time described by the author does not manifest itself in the normal culmination of a battle, judgment or catastrophe, but rather as "a steady increase of light, [through which] darkness is made to disappear or in which iniquity dissolves and just as the smoke rising into the air eventually dissipates". [5]
The modern consensus is that a Johannine community produced the Gospel of John and the three Johannine epistles, while John of Patmos wrote the Book of Revelation separately. [ c ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The book is commonly dated to about AD 95, as suggested by clues in the visions pointing to the reign of the emperor Domitian . [ 17 ]
The subject of the text is eschatological [5] and makes a connection with the healing ministry of the Messiah. [6] 4Q521 may be related to other apocalyptic end-time texts, 4QSecond Ezekiel [7] 4QApocryphon of Daniel, [8] and has been studied in relation to the Gospel of Luke's Messianic Magnificat and Benedictus; especially striking is the comparison with Luke 7:22 about raising the dead.
St. John of Patmos (also known as John the Revelator, John the Divine, or John the Theologian) was a member of Jesus Christ's inner circle (The Twelve Disciples). [5] The Roman Empire deemed the early Christians as a strange cult and were recognized as troublesome individuals and potential issues for the Empire.
There was also a legend that John was at some stage boiled in oil and miraculously preserved. [42] Another common attribute is a book or a scroll, in reference to his writings. [37] John the Evangelist is symbolically represented by an eagle, one of the creatures envisioned by Ezekiel (1:10) [43] and in the Book of Revelation (4:7). [44] [41]