The Explanation of the Apocalypse
Author | : Venerable Bede |
Publisher | : Aeterna Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
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Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book The Explanation of the Apocalypse written by Venerable Bede and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chief characteristics of Beda’s method of exposition may be thus stated. The several visions are considered not to be successive, but contemporaneous, with occasional recapitulations, and to represent the condition of the Church in all ages, under different aspects. The thousand years, in the twentieth chapter, are interpreted of the present period of the Church’s existence, in accordance with the opinion of St. Augustine, in the second part of his De Civitate Dei. The attention is closely directed to the text, and to corresponding passages of Holy Scripture, that the meaning of the symbolic language may be elicited. The previous exposition of Tichonius is mainly, but not exclusively followed. Beda appears, for example, to have adopted several opinions from St. Gregory the Great, and Primasius, as well as St. Augustine. Aeterna Press