Pliny’s letter to Emperor Trajan also refers to people who claim that they were once Christians, but denied their faith in Christ as much as twenty years ago. As was the case in Pliny’s own time, at least some of…
Pliny’s correspondence with Trajan, the Roman Emperor, might shed some light on the persecution of Christians in John’s seven churches, including Pergamum and Smyrna. Around A.D. 112, Pliny is the governor of Bithynia in northern Asia Minor; he writes a…
Here are a few more of my reflections related to writing a commentary on Revelation. 3. The ethical teaching of Revelation. One of the unexpected benefits of wrestling with Revelation was that I became more familiar with the ethical teaching…
In January of this year, I finished a seven-year project. In retrospect, it seems more like a journey than a project. I would like to describe a few aspects of my journey in hopes that I can share some of…
Sometime in January of 2017, I finally finished a project that I have been working on for 7 years. The results of my labor on the book of Revelation produced a commentary of about 490 pages. In the next few…
The Apocalypse of St. John: The Greek Text with Introduction, Notes, and Indices. Henry Barclay Swete. London: Macmillan, 1911. 338 pp. plus 220 pp. of introduction. H. B. Swete was Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge from 1890-1916. His predecessor…
In a recent post, I wrote about the covenant formula in Revelation 21:3. As I indicated in that post, I became interested in the covenant formula due to my work in Revelation 21. This interest led me to read and…
In four previous posts, I provided a summary of points from Rendtorff’s The Covenant Formula. I became interested in the covenant formula due to my work in Revelation 21. Revelation quite clearly mentions the covenant in Revelation 11:19 when it…
Revelation: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Craig R. Koester. Anchor Yale Bible. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 928 pages. Paperback, $65.00. Craig Koester is a professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He…
Apocalypse of St. John by H. B. Swete, part 2
The Apocalypse of St. John: The Greek Text with Introduction, Notes, and Indices. Henry Barclay Swete. London: Macmillan, 1911. 338 pp. plus 220 pp. of introduction. H. B. Swete was Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge from 1890-1916. His predecessor…