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1、NotesonRevelation2008EditionDr.ThomasL.ConstableIntroductionHISTORICALBACKGROUNDTheopeningversesofthebookstatethat"John"wroteit(1:1,4,9;cf.22:8).FromthefirstcenturytothepresentdayalmostallorthodoxscholarshaveconcludedthatthismeanstheApostleJohn.1TwonoteworthyexceptionswereLutherandZwingli.2Todayman

2、yscholarswhoacceptthedivineinspirationofthebookbelievetheApostleJohnwroteit.Someoftheearlychurchfathers(ClementofAlexandria,Eusebius,Irenaeus,andVictorinus)wrotethattheApostleJohnexperiencedexileontheislandofPatmosduringDomitian'sreign.3TheywrotethatthegovernmentallowedJohntoreturntoEphesusafterthis

3、emperordied.DomitiandiedinA.D.96.ConsequentlymanyconservativeinterpretersdatethewritingofthisbooknearA.D.95or96.4"PerhapsmorethananyotherbookintheNT,theApocalypseenjoyedwidedistributionandearlyrecognition."5WheredidJohngettherevelationthathewrotedowninthisbook?HesaidthathereceiveditfromJesusChristth

4、roughangelicmediation(1:1).MostofthedetailsofthisrevelationwereundoubtedlynewtoJohn.HoweverthereareremarkableparallelsbetweenthisrevelationandtheLordJesus'teachingintheOlivetDiscourse(Matt.24—1SeeRobertL.Thomas,Revelation1—7:AnExegeticalCommentary,pp.2-19,forextensivediscussionofauthorship.Fordiscu

5、ssionanddefenseoftheapostolicauthorshipofRevelation,seeJohnF.Walvoord,TheRevelationofJesusChrist,pp.11-14.2DavidE.Aune,Revelation1—5,p.lvi,believedthatitisnotpossibletoidentifythewriter-editorwithanyotherearlyChristianfigurenamedJohnwithcertainty.3Seethemaplocatedwithmycommentson1:10-11.Forasummaryo

6、fthistradition,seeIsbonT.BeckwithTheApocalypseofJohn,pp.366-93;GeorgeEldonLadd,ACommentaryontheRevelationofJohn,p.8;orRaymondE.Brown,TheGospelAccordingtoJohn,1:lxxxviii-xcii.4KennethL.GentryJr.,BeforeJerusalemFell:DatingtheBookofRevelation,arguedthatJohnwroteRevelationinthelate60s,butRobertL.Thomas,

7、EvangelicalHermeneutics,refutedthisviewinhischapter"TheonomyandtheDatingofRevelation,"pp.451-71,asdidMarkL.Hitchcock,"ADefenseoftheDomitianicDateoftheBookofRevelation"(Ph.D.dissertation,DallasTheologi