title: The Revelation of St. John the Divine
author: G. B. Caird
description: From the dust jacket:
  This commentary has been written in 
  the conviction that the Revelation is not 
  only a great work of art but a profoundly 
  Christian book which can speak as eloquently to the world of today as it did to 
  the world of John's own time. 
  The untutored reader of the Apocalypse is often puzzled by the diverse 
  array of interpretations available to him. 
  Symbolically the Revelation describes 
  visions for the benefit of seven churches: 
  a throne and a scroll; seals, trumpets, 
  and bowls; horsemen, locusts, and scorpions; a dragon and a monster; two 
  women and two cities. Do these symbols 
  correspond to anything past, present, or 
  future in our experience? 
  Professor Caird stresses that John was 
  a pastor, writing with a passionate concern for ordinary men and women to 
  understand what he had been charged 
  to tell them. If only we could put our- 
  selves in the place of those early Christians, we would find that John said 
  exactly what he meant and that he is his 
  own best interpreter. 
  The purpose of this commentary is to 
  carry the reader back to the end of the 
  first century A.D. to hear what the Spirit 
  was saying to the churches then, so that, 
  returning to the present, he may be better 
  able to hear what the Spirit is saying to 
  the churches of our own day. Accompanied by Dr. Cairds own fresh translation from the original Greek, this work 
  provides a wealth of historical and linguistic information as the author examines the nature of John's experience, the 
  structure of the book, and its theological 
  message. 
  THE AUTHOR: G. B. Caird, an eminent New Testament scholar, is senior 
  tutor at Mansfield College, Oxford University. He is the author of several books 
  and articles on New Testament interpretation.
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  # The Declaration of Arbroath 1320
  
  
  ### English Translation
  
  
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  To the most Holy Father and Lord in Christ, the Lord John, by divine
  
  
  providence Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Roman and Universal Church, his
  
  
  humble and devout sons Duncan, Earl of Fife, Thomas Randolph, Earl of
  
  
  Moray, Lord of Man and of Annandale, Patrick Dunbar, Earl of March,
  
  
  Malise, Earl of Strathearn, Malcolm, Earl of Lennox, William, Earl of
  
  
  Ross, Magnus, Earl of Caithness and Orkney, and William, Earl of
  
  
  Sutherland; Walter, Steward of Scotland, William Soules, Butler of
  
  
  Scotland, James, Lord of Douglas, Roger Mowbray, David, Lord of Brechin,
  
  
  David Graham, Ingram Umfraville, John Menteith, guardian of the earldom
  
  
  of Menteith, Alexander Fraser, Gilbert Hay, Constable of Scotland,
  
  
  Robert Keith, Marischal of Scotland, Henry St Clair, John Graham, David
  
  
  Lindsay, Willia