
In the introduction to the course I attended some
years back on the book of Revelation, I noticed this tongue-in-cheek definition
by my lecturer Dr Paul Hawk: “REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John
the Divine concealed all he knew. The revelation is done by commentators, who
know nothing.”
The experience of reading and understanding the
book of Revelation recorded by John is indeed a challenging one. The book of
Revelation begins...