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The Lamb opening the book/scroll with seven seals. The Seven Seals of God from the Bible's Book of Revelation are the seven symbolic seals (Greek: σφραγῖδα, sphragida) that secure the book or scroll that John of Patmos saw in an apocalyptic vision.
The song's title refers to John of Patmos in his role as the author of the Book of Revelation. A portion of that book focuses on the opening of seven seals and the resulting apocalyptic events . In its various versions, the song quotes several passages from the Bible in the tradition of American spirituals .
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 ...
John has been banished to the island of Patmos, a Roman mining penal colony, with many others. The film follows Victorinus of Pettau's descriptions of the harsh conditions that John endured working in the mines on the island of Patmos. [4] He writes out messages of his visions and sends the "Revelation of God" to the seven churches of Greek ...
Illustration from the Bamberg Apocalypse of the Son of Man among the seven lampstands The Vision of John on Patmos by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1860). John's vision of the Son of Man, also known as John’s Vision of Christ, is a vision described in the Book of Revelation (Revelation 1:9–20) in which the author, identified as John, sees a person he describes as one "like the Son of Man" ().
John sees a new heaven and a new earth, and all those whose names are written in the Book of Life go there to have eternal life. The voice of God speaks, saying that He is the Alpha and the Omega and will give to them that thirst the water of life, and they will become His people, and He will wipe away their tears, and there shall be no more ...
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]
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.