title: Revelation (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture)
author:  Peter S. Williamson 
description: &quot;Peter Williamson has written a balanced, clear, informative, and insightful commentary on Revelation that is both Catholic and catholic. Attentive to the first-century context, the history of interpretation, and Christian liturgy and life, it offers us--like Revelation itself--guidance for the spiritual struggle between the first and second comings of the Lord.&quot;<BR>--<b>Michael&nbsp;J. Gorman</b>, Raymond&nbsp;E. Brown Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology, St. Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore<BR><BR>&quot;Dr. Williamson, drawing on the best scholarship, has done an excellent job making sense out of a book that is notoriously difficult to interpret. Academically sound, pastorally useful, spiritually inspiring. Highly recommended.&quot;<BR>--<b>Ralph Martin, STD</b>, director of Graduate Theology Programs in the New Evangelization, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Archdiocese of Detroit<BR><BR>&quot;Peter Williamson's commentary on the book of Revelation is well balanced and judicious on issues of the book's authorship, date, composition, and structure, thus aiding readers in making well-informed decisions that draw on Williamson's familiarity with modern scholarship and the patristic discussions of Revelation. His explanations of the various images throughout Revelation, set within a clear, sensible presentation of the structure of the whole book, allow the pieces of the puzzle of this book to fall into place and enable the reader to better understand its first-century background and its vision of the final victory of God and his Church over Satan and his kingdom. Throughout the book, the author draws out the ongoing significance of Revelation for the life of the Church in every era between the time of its writing and its ultimate fulfillment. I highly commend this commentary.&quot;<BR>--<b>Fr. Mitchell C. Pacwa, SJ</b>, senior fellow, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, Steubenville, Ohio<BR><BR>For more information on the series, visit <b>www.CatholicScriptureCommentary.com</b>
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  «Publish this Work («The Poem of the Man-God «) as it is. It is not necessary
  to give any opinion about its origin or whether it can be extraordinary or
  not. Whoever reads it, will understand»
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Canon 66 «The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive
  Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected
  before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.» Yet even if
  Revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely explicit; it
  remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the
  course of the centuries.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Canon 67 Throughout the ages, there have been so-called «private» revelations,
  some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not
  belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It 