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The Revelation to John: A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Apocalypse is unavailable, but you can change that!

Dr. Stephen Smalley provides a fresh and stimulating contribution to the scholarly study of an exciting but often perplexing work in this detailed yet accessible commentary on the Greek text of Revelation. Smalley shows how Revelation speaks directly to all situations in every age, offering a testimony to God’s love, made available through his justice, which is relevant for our own society. A...

22:20). The centre of the ages lies in the past (Chapters 4–5), even if the sovereignty of God in Christ has still to be acknowledged (5:13–14). The achievement of God’s plan for his world, and the subjugation of secular rebellion, forms the story of Rev. 6–22; but meanwhile John never says when the end will come, and finality itself appears to be elusive (see on 6:17; et al.). In the writer’s understanding of salvation, the past, the present and the future are all important, and his eschatology
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