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For centuries the book of Revelation has been both an inspiration and a mystery to the Christian church. In hours of darkness it has given courage to its readers; but in periods of ease and prosperity it has become the subject of a bewildering assortment of approaches and interpretations. Merrill C. Tenney has built his study on the thesis that Revelation had a definite message for those to whom...

century, nearly a hundred years after Revelation, said that they were founded by Nicolaus the proselyte of Antioch mentioned in Acts 6:5, and that they “lived lives of unrestrained indulgence.”8 Irenaeus attributed to them certain doctrinal vagaries which are not mentioned in the Apocalypse. It is possible that if the sect survived until this day it might have developed new peculiarities; but the main errors stressed here are eating things sacrificed to idols and committing fornication. These carry
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