The Revelation of John · Lecture 007
The Revelation of John 7
A lecture by Fr. Athanasios Mytilinaios · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
In this seventh lecture, Fr. Athanasios interprets John's self-identification in Revelation 1 through the three marks of the Church: tribulation, patience, and the Kingdom, read alongside Matthew 10:22, 2 Timothy 2:11-12, Acts 10, and John 10. He argues that patience has meaning only when joined to tribulation endured for the Gospel and to the Kingdom as its fruit, while sufferings caused by one's own folly do not carry the same eternal weight. The lecture distinguishes Christianity from generic religion, defining it as God's Kingdom and participation in divine life, and warns that separating doctrine from ethics or worship from life reduces faith to moralism or ritualism. It also contrasts divine ecstasy, as in John and Peter, with demonic trance.
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