DATE

DATE

DATE

Early Christian Testimony

Early Christian writers date Revelation in the reign of one of four different Roman emperors. (See table 7.)

Tabic 7

Earlv Christian Writings and the Date of the Revelation

Emperor

Ruled

Sources dating Revelation by emperor

Claudius

41-54

Epiphanius, Haer. 51.12

Nero

54—68) Syriac versions of Revelation

Domitian

81-96

Ireneus (Adv Haer. 5.30.3) (“toward the end of the reign of Domitian”); Victorinus, Apoc. 10.11; Eusebius, H E. 3.18; Clement of Alexandria (Quis div. 42) and Origen {Matt. 16.6) both locate Revelation in the reign of “the tyrant,” probably referring to Domitian

Trajan

98-117

a synopsis of the life and death of the prophets, attributed to Dorothcus; Theophylact on Matt. 20:22

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