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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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
The gospel identifies its author as the disciple whom Jesus loved, commonly identified with John the Evangelist since the end of the first century. [4] Scholars have debated the authorship of Johannine literature (the Gospel of John, Epistles of John, and the Book of Revelation) since at least the third century, but especially since the ...
John the Revelator (John of Patmos) is the traditional author of the Book of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament. John the Revelator may also refer to: "John the Revelator" (folk/blues song), a traditional American folk blues song first recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in 1930 "John the Revelator / Lilian", a 2006 single by Depeche Mode