Category: Revelation 12

  • Andreas of Caesarea on the Woman of Revelation 12

    Andreas of Caesarea wrote the earliest complete commentary on the book of Revelation that we have available. I’m very thankful that Eugenia Constantinou has recently provided a complete English translation of this work (copy of that translation available: here). Andreas, following the patristic consensus, refers the woman of Revelation 12 to the church rather than…

  • Mary Crowned in Revelation? – Part 2

    In response to a first post on the idolatry involved in the Roman Catholic crowning of Mary (link), a commenter had countered that Mary is crowned in Revelation, to which I responded in a second post (link). Now, the commenter has provided some more comments, to which I’ll respond, perhaps closing this matter. “John” wrote:…

  • Mary Crowned in Revelation?

    In a previous point (link), I pointed out the glaring reality of Marian idolatry and the fact that such idolatry was unknown and foreign to Tertullian. I finally have received one of the responses that I expected to receive. This response comes from someone who posted using the name “John”: Mary is depicted with a…