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More than any other New Testament writing, the Book of Revelation demands commentary. Its often-bewildering text is easily open to less-than-scholarly interpretation. Wilfrid Harrington brings his scholarship to the Book of Revelation and conveys its Christian message. He puts the work in its historical and social setting—a first-century CE province of the Roman Empire—and explores its social...

and Gregory of Nazianzus did not number it among the New Testament writings; John Chrysostom and Theodoret never referred to it. It does not figure in the Syriac versions of the New Testament. The negative witness represents no more than a fraction of the patristic tradition. However, the dissidents had on their side the evidence of conflicting data and the strength of scholarly research. Today it is widely accepted, or at least seriously argued, that any linkage of Revelation with the Fourth Gospel
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