{"id":500,"date":"2016-06-23T17:41:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T21:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/?p=500"},"modified":"2016-08-21T21:21:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T01:21:52","slug":"johns-exile-on-patmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/johns-exile-on-patmos\/","title":{"rendered":"John’s Exile on Patmos"},"content":{"rendered":"

John was exiled on the island of Patmos for the word of God during a time of tribulation or persecution (Rev 1:9). The early church fathers agree that he was exiled during the reign of Caesar Domitian (Introduction, pg. 2<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is said that in this persecution the apostle and evangelist John, who was still alive, was condemned to dwell on the island of Patmos in consequence of his testimony to the divine word. Irenaeus, in the fifth book of his work Against Heresies<\/em>, where he discusses the number of the name of Antichrist which is given in the so-called Apocalypse of John, speaks as follows concerning him: \u2018If it were necessary for his name to be proclaimed openly at the present time, it would have been declared by him who saw the revelation. For it was seen not long ago, but almost in our own generation, at the end of the reign of Domitian.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Eusebius, The History of the Church, Bk. 3<\/em>, Ch. 18, \u201cThe Apostle John and the Apocalypse,\u201d p. 148.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That John was not the author of Revelation, and as such the book was written earlier or later than the time of his exile on Patmos, is a view which does not bear up under scrutiny, and I have ignored it for the purpose of this book.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Apocalypse professes to be the work of John, who assumes a commanding position over the churches of Asia. History knows only one such character, the Apostle and Evangelist, and to him it is ascribed by the earliest and most trustworthy witnesses, going back to the lifetime of many friends and pupils of the author. It is one of the best authenticated books of the New Testament.\u201d<\/p>\n

Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church<\/em>, Vol. 1<\/em>, p. 693.<\/p>\n

\u201cWestcott notices that \u2018the Apocalypse was recognized from the first as a work of the Apostle in the districts most immediately interested in its contents,\u2019 that is, Asia Minor, and indeed, that the disputed epistles generally were accepted exactly in those places where they were most likely to be known.\u201d<\/p>\n

LeRoy Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Vol. 1<\/em>, p. 110.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe traditional date of composition at the end of Domitian\u2019s reign (A.D. 95 or 96) rests on the clear and weighty testimony of Irenaeus, is confirmed by Eusebius and Jerome, and has still its learned defenders \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. 1<\/em>, p. 694.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John was exiled on the island of Patmos for the word of God during a time of tribulation or persecution (Rev 1:9). The early church fathers agree that he was exiled during the reign of Caesar Domitian (Introduction, pg. 2). \u201cIt is said that in this persecution the apostle and evangelist John, who was still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-introduction","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}