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The Revelation of John: A Narrative Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

As the only book of its kind in the New Testament, Revelation presents interpretive challenges to scholar, student, pastor, and lay reader alike. For readers without specialized training, the historical-critical approach used in many commentaries can provide more complication than illumination. Further, that approach tends to de-emphasize the narrative aspect of the book. In this new commentary,...

thunder” (14:2); “I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty thunderpeals” (19:6). Not all sounds are ear-piercing, nor are all voices boisterous. Some are laments of weeping and wailing (18:9–10, 11, 15, 19), while other sounds are conspicuous by their absence. At the opening of the seventh seal there is silence in heaven for half an hour (8:1). And at Babylon’s fall the familiar sounds of commerce and joy are silenced: the
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