We could tell of so many miracles of the saint that it is difficult to decide which of his miracles are most worthy of admiration.
Sergei Komarov
It’s worth noting that, according to the opening phrase of the first verse, we are looking at the revelation of Jesus Christ, not St. John. The apostle simply has to pass on what Christ revealed to him.
For modern man, the term “apocalypse” has a sinister meaning. In antiquity, it meant to remove the covering from something hidden, to reveal that which was concealed. It was like removing the sheet from a new painting or opening the curtain on a stage. Over time, the concept began to be used to indicate the genre of those Jewish writings that appeared two centuries before Christ and continued into the first century after Christ.
We are beginning a study of the book of Revelation by St. John the Theologian. Perhaps it would be useful to ask ourselves: Why should we read and analyze this book?
Archpriest Andrei Ukhtomsky
St. John of Vishenky was an Orthodox monk and polemicist (16th-17th C.) who lived on Mt. Athos and in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. His teaching on the Church, in the context of the defense of the Orthodox Church and its structure from attacks by representatives of the Catholic church, is also valuable in our time, inasmuch as it clarifies the truth of the Church.