The Revelation of John · Lecture 012
The Revelation of John 12
A lecture by Fr. Athanasios Mytilinaios · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
In the twelfth lecture, Fr. Athanasios examines Christ's letter to Smyrna in Revelation 2:8-11, emphasizing that it contains praise for poverty and endurance but no rebuke. He interprets the phrase “Synagogue of Satan” as the Jewish assembly that rejected the Messiah, and connects the prophecy of ten days of tribulation with a brief persecution fulfilled, in his reading, in the martyrdom of Polycarp of Smyrna in 155 AD. The lecture also treats the ten days and the thousand years of Revelation as schematic numbers, reads the Prodigal Son as a historical allegory of Israel and the Gentiles, and grounds the call to fidelity unto death in Hebrews 12:4.
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