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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...

fine linen: These angels are clothed like the bride (19:8) and the armies of heaven (19:14). golden girdles: The one like a son of man of 1:3 wore a “gold girdle around his breast.” 7. one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels: Note the similar role of the living creatures in 6:1–8. the wrath of God: See Rom 1:18; Heb 10:31. who lives for ever and ever: See 4:9; 10:6. 8. filled with smoke … glory … power: See Exod 40:35; Isa 6:4; Ezek 10:4; 1 Kgs 8:10–11—traditional details of a theophany,
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