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Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, Diego Velázquez

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Diego Velázquez, Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, c. 1618 · National Gallery, London · Public domainDiego Velázquez, Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, c. 1618, National Gallery, London

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Author of the earliest surviving Greek commentary on Revelation, written about the middle of the sixth century, and the first commentator to read the woman clothed with the sun in Revelation 12 as the Mother of God. His name was later attached to tenth-century catena commentaries on Acts and the epistles, which is how the medieval catenae cite him. The chain uses him for Revelation 12.

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Author of the oldest surviving Greek commentary on the book of Revelation.

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