Revelation 1:3

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Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

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Andreas of Caesarea

AD 637

for the time is at hand. the time of the giving out rewards, because the brief moment of life is small in comparison to the future.

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Bede

AD 735

blessed. Teachers and hearers are therefore blessed, because they who keep the Word of God find that a short time of labour is followed by everlasting joys.

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Nicholas of Lyra

AD 1349

Blessed He tells the hearers to listen to the power of the book; that is, how to get blessedness, saying: Blessed is he that reads Referring to the doctors of the Church, who hear Referring to pious students, The words of this prophesy, By keeping in mind. and keeps those things that are written in it; By enduring the future trials, and the reason is added: For the time is at hand, already passing, as if to say, the suffering is brief and the reward of blessedness is forever.

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Oecumenius

AD 990

He does not call them blessed who are readers alone, because there would be many who would be blessed because there were many readers, but it is meant for those who hear and keep the warnings in the prophecy, and those who faithfully keep and observe its commands as divine laws. For he says, the time is at hand. For everyone who keeps the commandments of God the time of blessedness is at hand. That is what he means or he could mean that the conclusion of what he said is close at hand. What is meant by at hand has already been explained.

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Oecumenius

AD 990

For to everyone who keeps the commandments of God the time of blessedness is at hand. He either means this, or that the time of the outcome of what is said is near.

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Oecumenius

AD 990

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Victorinus of Pettau

AD 303

The beginning of the book promises blessing to him that reads and hears and keeps, that he who takes pains about the reading may thence learn to do works, and may keep the precepts.

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Victorinus of Pettau

AD 303

Prophets announced all things to come, and by His voice John gave his testimony in the world; but because he says that he was about to write the things which the thunders had uttered, that is, whatever things had been obscure in the announcements of the Old Testament; he is forbidden to write them, but he was charged to leave them sealed, because he is an apostle, nor was it fitting that the grace of the subsequent stage should be given in the first. "The time "says he, "is at hand."

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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20