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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 woman of Revelation 12 to be more original and inspiring than that of the later Andreas.30 Oecumenius’s theological views will be considered further in the following section, which deals with the complex relationship between him and Origen. Enough has been said to show that Oecumenius attempts to be very orthodox, while being open to some original interpretations of Revelation. He is modest enough to claim that he is “as far away from the working of the Spirit” as he is “from the divine and
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