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Interpretation and reception

The Explanation of the Apocalypse

Bede

Explains Revelation’s repeated presentations of the Church’s conflicts and the heavenly Jerusalem through recapitulation and symbolic numbers.

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Edition and location

Edward Marshall translation, Oxford and London: James Parker and Co. (1878); Fordham Internet Medieval Sourcebook.

Bede’s introductory letter to Eusebius: seven sections and rules of interpretation