Revelation 1:9

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I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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Bede

AD 735

I John: He indicates the person, the place, and the reason of the vision; and he also testifies that he saw this in the spirit, lest he should be supposed to have been deluded by fleshly apparition.

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Bede

AD 735

Patmos: It is a well-known story that John was banished to this island by the Emperor Domitian for the Gospel's sake, and it was fitly given him to penetrate the secrets of heaven, at a time when it was denied him to go beyond a certain spot on earth.   <a

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Oecumenius

AD 990

of Jesus: This is what it means to be “in Jesus. for the word of God, and for the testimony: is what he testified when he proclaimed the Gospel, he was exiled to Patmos. Eusebius told in his Canonical Chronicle in the time of Domitian. Then he goes on to say, while he was living on the island,

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Oecumenius

AD 990

He was writing to the faithful who had suffered many things for the Gospel and the preaching of Christ at the hands of those who persecuted the pious. He calls himself as being “in Jesus” as sharing in their oppression and perseverance, and in the kingdom of God, because of the way they reside in oppression in behalf of the Word.

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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

AD 550

"This other author, on the contrary, did not even deem it sufficient to name himself once, and then to proceed with his narrative; but he takes up his name again, and says: "I John, who also am your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos for the Word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ."

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