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Part IV: The eternal Jesus

Part IV: The eternal Jesus

Part IV: The eternal Jesus

  • H. Lindsey, The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon (1981; Marshall Morgan & Scott, 1983), p. 104.
  • Ibid., p. 8.
  • R. Bauckham, The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation (T. & T. Clark, 1993), p. ix.
  • H. B. Swete, The Apocalypse of St John (Macmillan, 1906), p. xcii.
  • G. K. Beale, The Book of Revelation, in The New International Greek Testament Commentary (Eerdmans/Paternoster, 1999), p. 108.
  • ‘Death and hades’ are frequently bracketed in the book of Revelation, ‘death’ being the event of dying and ‘hades’ the abode of the dead.
  • The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians, ch. 6.
  • The Martyrdom of Polycarp, chs. 9–16 from B. J. Kidd (ed.), Documents Illustrative of the History of the Church (SPCK, 1938), vol. I, pp. 68–71.
  • C. J. Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in their local setting (JSOT Press, 1986), p. 87, cf. p. 104.
  • Beale, Revelation, p. 226.
  • W. M. Ramsay, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia (Hodder & Stoughton, 1904), pp. 391–392.
  • Beale lists fourteen resemblances between Dan. 7 and Rev. 4 in Revelation, p. 313ffi.
  • Swete, Apocalypse, p. 70. Or perhaps they were cherubim. See Ezek. 10:20.
  • Beale describes it as ‘a book containing God’s plan of judgment and redemption’, in Revelation, p. 340.
  • See for example G. Aulen, Christus Victor (1930; SPCK, 1931).
  • G. E. Ladd, A Commentary on the Revelation of John (Eerdmans, 1972), p. 106.
  • B. M. Metzger, Breaking the Code: understanding the book of Revelation (Abingdon, 1993), p. 64.
  • Exod. 7:14ffi. = Rev. 8:8; Exod. 9:13ffi. = Rev. 8:7; Exod. 10:1ffi. = Rev. 9:1ffi.; and Exod. 10:21ffi. = Rev. 8:12.
  • T. F. Torrance, The Apocalypse Today (James Clarke, 1960), p. 75.
  • Bauckham, Climax of Prophecy, p. 185.
  • Beale, Revelation, p. 722.
  • S. R. F. Price, Rituals and Power: the Roman imperial cult in Asia Minor (CUP, 1984), pp. 54–58, 197–198.
  • Dio Cassius, Roman History, edited by T. E. Page (William Heinemann Ltd, n.d.), Book 67, section 4.
  • Suetonius, Domitian 13, edited by Brian Jones (Bristol Classical Press, 1995).
  • Kidd (ed.), Documents Illustrative of the History of the Church, vol. I, pp. 38–39.
  • Ladd, Commentary on the Revelation of John, p. 202.
  • L. Morris, The Revelation of St John (Tyndale Press, 1969), p. 186.
  • = Luke 12:39–40. Paul also used the metaphor (1 Thess. 5:2, 4), and so did Peter (2 Pet. 3:10), so that it seems to have been common currency in the early church.
  • P. Barnett, Apocalypse Now and Then (Anglican Information Offiice, 1989), p. 131.
  • Bauckham, Climax of Prophecy, p. 343.
  • Barnet, Apocalypse Now and Then, p. 138.
  • Bauckham, Climax of Prophecy, p. 371.
  • Barnett, Apocalypse Now and Then, p. 143.
  • Metzger, Breaking the Code, p. 95.
  • Ibid., p. 101.
  • C. E. B. Cranfield, The Gospel According to St Mark: an introduction and commentary (CUP, 1966), p. 408.
  • When I wrote to Lord Coggan in October 1999, asking for permission to use this story, he replied that some time back he had had a stroke, which had left him ‘staggering, stammering and stuttering’. But his handwriting was perfectly legible, and he sounded in good spirits. He died in June 2000.

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