Early Church Fathers on the Apocalypse

Irenaeus. Adv. Haer. 5.30-35

Justin Martyr Dial. 80-81

Eusebius Hist. Eccl. 3.13.1-3.18.4 (The Emperor Domitian and John of Patmos, called here "the Evangelist")

Eusebius Hist. Eccl. 3.24.17-3.25.7 (Revelation and the NT Canon)

Eusebius Hist. Eccl. 3.39.1-12 (Papias)

Eusebius Hist. Eccl. 7.24-25 (Dionysius of Alexandria on Nepos's interpretation of the Apocalypse and on the authorship of the Apocalypse)

Tertullian Adv. Marc. 3.25 (vision of the New Jerusalem)

Lactantius Div. Inst. 7.24-26

Commodianus Inst. 41  (the time of the Antichrist)

Clement Paed. 2.13   (on jewelry and the Heavenly Jerusalem)

Origen De Princ. 2.11.2-3 (spiritual vs. physical pleasures in the New Jerusalem)

Augustine Civ. Dei 20.7-17

 

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