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Interest in the book of Revelation in the Western tradition is stronger and earlier than that in the East. The earliest full commentary on the Apocalypse is that of Victorinus of Petovium written in the mid to late third century by the earliest exegete to write in Latin. Victorinus interpreted Revelation in millennialist terms, a mode of interpretation already evident in works by Irenaeus, as...

that in this age the times were mixed, Pomerius collapsed the distinction between the active life and the contemplative life. The contemplative life was not the life apart from the world, but life to be lived in the future life of bliss with God. At the same time, the contemplative life could be to some extent lived already through an ascetic manner of life that exercised both active and contemplative virtues. Thus, Pomerius advised clergy to study the Scriptures, to be free of worldly entanglements
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