with the sovereignty of Christ here upon earth, likewise links it with the consummation of Christ’s kingdom in heaven. Through faith and patience the subjects of that kingdom in- herit the promises. “Rightly he says first ‘in the tribula- tion’ and adds afterwards ‘in the kingdom,’ because, if we suffer together we shall also reign together” (Richard of St. Victor, cit. by Trench). Compare Acts xiv. 22.
Patience. Seeon 2 Pet.i.6; Jas. v. 7.
Of Jesus Christ (Incod Xpicrod). The best texts omit Christ and insert év in; rendering, as Rev., “kingdom and patience which are in Jesus.”
Was (éyevounv). Lit., J came to pass, ie., [ found myself. The past tense seems to imply that John was no longer in Pat- mos when he wrote.
Patmos. Now called Patmo and Palmosa. In the Mgean, one of the group of the Sporades, about twenty-eight miles S.S.W. of Samos. It is about ten miles long by six in breadth. The island is volcanic, and is bare and rocky throughout; the hills, of which the highest rises to nearly a thousand feet, com- manding a magnificent view of the neighboring sea and islands. The bay of La Scala, running into the land on the east, divides the island into two nearly equal parts, a northern and a south- ern. The ancient town, remains of which are still to be seen, occupied the isthmus which separates La Scala from the bay of Merika on the western coast. The modern town is on a hill in the southern half of the island, clustered at the foot of the monastery of St. John. A grotto is shown called “ the grotto of the Apocalypse,” in which the apostle is said to have received the vision. “‘ The stern, rugged barrenness of its broken promontories well suits the historical fact of the relegation of the condemned Christian to its shores, as of a convict to his prison. The view from the topmost peak, or, indeed, from any lofty elevation in the islands, unfolds an unusual sweep, such as well became the Apocalypse, the unveiling of the future to the eyes of the solitary seer. Above, there was always the broad