Revelation

This thorough and helpful treatment of one of the most difficult books in the Bible begins with a full introduction that interprets the contents of the book and the thought-world from which it sprang. The author concludes that Revelation, though different from the other books of the New Testament, does belong, indeed that in its reinterpretation of the scriptures it draws together the themes of both Testaments and deserves its place as last book of the Bible. Work on this commentary has brought awareness of a deep community of thinking and feeling between John and the other New Testament writers...Perhaps Revelation's greatest value for our day lies in its symbolic richness. Sweet follows this Introduction with a detailed commentary on all the passages of the book. He also gives notes, bibliography, and indexes. This is the first entirely new commentary to be added to the Westminster Pelican Commentaries since the series was first sponsored by The Westminster Press.