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Written about 710–716, Explanation of the Apocalypse is one of the earliest commentaries on the Book of Revelation ever written. Bede’s succinct but in-depth commentary, separated into three books, is unique in its division of Revelation into seven distinct sections. Included in this volume is a letter to Eusebius, where Bede explains his reasons for structuring his commentary the way he did, as...

the place, or the body, or the air, and in like manner, the time. The Angels, namely, visit Abraham at noone, Sodom in the eveningf; Adam after middayg was afraid at the voice of the Lord, walking up and down; and Solomon received at nighth the wisdom which it was not to be his to retain. He is first admonished by a voice, that he may direct his attention to the vision. The Church of Christ was not at the time in these places alone, but all fulness is comprised in the
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