[clue-talk] How do CLUEbies vote?

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 09-28 13:44, dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:

> Revelations was one of a number of apocalyptic Christian books written
> around that time.  The genre was probably popular for a number of reasons:
> plague, bad harvests, persecution by the Romans, etc.  It probably seemed
> to people back then that things were getting worse than they ever had
> been, and that these must be signs that the end was near.  When
> Constantine made Christianity a state religion, the Nicean council chose
> one of those books for inclusion in the Bible, probably on the basis of
> popularity and the fact that this book was attributed to John.

It almost didn't make it into the canon, too: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation#Early_views


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down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he 
dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his 
continuance? 
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