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...

of the text in 19284 that serious efforts were made to identify its author and date. Hoskier was specially concerned with establishing what he called “the foundation text” of Revelation. He felt confident that Oecumenius was the bishop of Tricca who wrote his commentary “towards the beginning of the seventh century,”5 instead of the earlier accepted date of the tenth century. There are, however, problems with both the date and the identity of Oecumenius. The evidence of the date is given by Oecumenius

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