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Translated with an introduction and notes by Faith Wallis. "The Commentary on Revelation" is Bede's first venture into Biblical exegesis - an ambitious choice for a young monastic scholar in a newly Christianized land. Its subject matter - the climax of the great story of creation and redemption, of history and of time itself - adds to the "Commentary's" intrinsic importance, for these themes lie at the heart of Bede's concerns and of his achievement as a historian, exegete, scholar, and preacher. But Bede was also a man of his age. When he penned the "Commentary" around 703, speculation and anxiety about the end of the world was in the air. According to conventional chronology, almost 6000 years had passed since creation. If for God "one day... is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day" (2 Peter 3:8), the world was destined to last six millennia, corresponding to the six days of creation. The end, then, was close. Bede vigorously opposed the temptation to calculate the time of the end. The "Commentary" argues that Revelation is not a literal prophecy, but a symbolic reflection on the perennial struggle of the Church in this world. At the same time, the young Bede is

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Author

Bede, Beda Venerabilis, Faith Wallis (transl.)

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846318450

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian, History