Oecumenius: Commentary on the Apocalypse (Biblia.com)

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This is the first complete translation in English of Oecumenius’s commentary, which is the first known Greek commentary on the book of Revelation. Written in the sixth century but discovered only at the beginning of the twentieth, it presents a fascinating view of a writer who strove to be faithful to the teaching of the church while at the same time allowing his imagination to make sense of the...

those who refused to hasten to the faith and so, though taught by the grace given to the apostles, did not attain the true worship of God, but rather devised a cross and death for him. (3) He says, And the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God: the verb I saw in the phrase “those seated upon thrones and judging the rest of mankind” is to be understood here, too. By those who had been beheaded he means those who had been killed with an axe.2 He is

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