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The Exposition of the Apocalypse by Tyconius of Carthage (fl. 380) was pivotal in the history of interpretation of the Book of Revelation. While expositors of the second and third centuries viewed the Apocalypse of John, or Book of Revelation, as mainly about the time of Antichrist and the end of the world, in the late fourth century Tyconius interpreted John’s visions as figurative of the...

of temporal quantities; he explains both literary and mystical modes of recapitulation; and, finally, he discerns the masquerading activity of the devil and his body. By following the logic of the mystic rules, he has provided keys and windows to the Spirit’s address to the seven churches, the revelation of the church in heaven, the narrative and recapitulations of the seven seals, trumpets, and bowls, and the revelation of the church in the age of eschatological Sabbath and shalom. One of the mysteries
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