John was the last apostle alive when he was on Patmos (Introduction, pg. 3).
“He may have been about ten years younger than Jesus, and as, according to the unanimous testimony of antiquity, he lived till the reign of Trajan, i.e., till after 98, he must have attained an age of over ninety years.… He seems to have been the youngest of the apostles, as he long outlived them all…”
Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. 1, pp. 347, 348.
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