| 单词 | the revelation of st john the divine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Revelation of St. John the Divine a. In early use chiefly with the. In full the Revelation of St. John the Divine. The last book of the New Testament; the Apocalypse. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > Revelations > [noun] apocalypseOE 'pocalypseOE book of privities?c1225 Book of sights1340 revelationc1384 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. p. 681 Heere endith the Apocalips, or Reuelacioun of Seynt Joon the euangelist. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Rev. (heading) The summe of the Reuelacion. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxxvjv They call the Bishop of Rome..the whore of Babilon, described in the Reuelation. c1585 R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 43 In the Reuelation, the twelue Apostles are called the twelue foundations. a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 49 What Scriptures call The Revelation, is most mystical. 1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. Rev. i. 1 It is eminently call'd the Revelation. 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 392 The third painting in this series is the subsequent vision, in the 4th and 5th chapters of the Revelation of John the Divine. a1768 T. Secker Serm. Several Subj. (1771) VI. 69 The Revelation of St. John is accused of Obscurity, and consequently of Uselessness. 1846 Tennyson in Mem. I. 238 There was no more sea, says St. John in Revelation. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island vi. xxix. 181 One side was blank, for it had been the last leaf; the other contained a verse or two of Revelation. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 905/1 The Anabaptists were great readers of Revelation and of the Epistle of James. 1959 Mag. Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Dec. 91/1 Cooper has had the gall to interpolate this..screed with passages from Ecclesiastes and Revelation. 1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 473 Jesse's Bible-study sessions had moved from Revelation and the Old Testament prophets..to the Gospels. < as lemmas |
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