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  • Then slowly, only adding what he wanted to add on, the hotel became the hotel to stay at in Patmos and is now considered one of the best in Greece.

    Greece After The Fall Akhil Sharma 2010

  • The island of Patmos is where St. John the Divine is supposed to have written the Book of the Apocalypse.

    Greece After The Fall Akhil Sharma 2010

  • {As per Rev 1: 8,9 above} The island of Patmos is about 30 miles from the port of Ephesus in Western Turkey.

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  • Probably it was immediately after his return that he wrote, under divine inspiration, the account of the visions vouchsafed to him in Patmos (Re 1: 2, 9).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • -- Eusebius [Ecclesiastical History, 3.25] relates that John, after the death of Domitian, returned from his exile in Patmos to Ephesus, and went on missionary tours into the heathen regions around, and also made visitations of the churches around, and ordained bishops and clergy.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Asia (Re 2: 1) accord with the concurrent tradition, that after John's return from his exile in Patmos, at the death of Domitian, under Nerva, he resided for long, and died at last in Ephesus, in the time of Trajan

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Patmos is said to be an island in the Aegean Sea, One of those called Cyclades, and was about thirty-five miles in compass; but under this confinement it was the apostle's comfort that he did not suffer as an evil-doer, but that it was for the testimony of Jesus, for bearing witness to Christ as the Immanuel, the Saviour.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • Thank God for John, who centuries ago out on a lonely, obscure island called Patmos caught vision of a new Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, who heard a voice saying, "Behold, I make all things new; former things are passed away."

    Remembering Dr. King in the Era of the New Reverend Ikes of the Megachurches Jim Horn 2008

  • Thank God for John, who centuries ago out on a lonely, obscure island called Patmos caught vision of a new Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, who heard a voice saying, "Behold, I make all things new; former things are passed away."

    Archive 2008-04-01 Jim Horn 2008

  • John wrote a number of books of the New Testament but was exiled on an island called Patmos.

    101 Amazing Truths about Jesus Mark Littleton 2007

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