Chapters Quote by Diane Arbus

REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who…

— Ambrose Bierce

The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not…

— John Locke

Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got…

— Terry Pratchett

“Perhaps enough has been said to indicate that the imagery of Revelation requires close and appropriate study if modern readers are to grasp much…

— Richard Bauckham

“Revelation has a great deal to say about angels and demons. In fact, it talks about angels more than any other Bible book.”

— Mark Hitchcock

“The whole book of Revelation is a circular letter addressed to seven specific churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea (1:11; cf. 1:4;…

— Richard Bauckham

The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not…

— Gary North

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

— Thomas Ken

The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions…

— Northrop Frye

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

— Anonymous

“Thus Revelation seems to be an apocalyptic prophecy in the form of a circular letter to seven churches in the Roman province of Asia.”

— Richard Bauckham

“Revelation in nature and revelation in Scripture form, in alliance with each other, a harmonious unity which satisfies the requirements of the intellect and…

— Herman Bavinck