Book of Revelation… Pantazes of Larissa – Exegesis of Chapters 13 and 17 of the Book of the Revelation (1767) 9 Feb 202410 Dec 2025 Our next Greek Orthodox "historicist" type commentary which will be reviewed in this article, is by a man named Pantazes of Larissa. His commentary on Revelation primarily focuses on chapters 13…
Book of Revelation… Kyrillos Lavriotis of Patras – “Exegesis on the Apocalypse” (1817) 17 Sep 202312 Dec 2025 Kyrillos Lavriotis of Patras (also known as Cyril Lavriotos, or Cyrille Lavriotis) was a Greek monk born around 1741. Around 18 to 20 years old he was tonsured a monk…
Book of Daniel… Christophoros Angelos -“Treatise on the Apostasy from the Church, the Antichrist, and the Numbers of Daniel and Revelation”(1624) 14 Sep 202316 Dec 2025 Christophoros Angelos (also known as Christopher Angelos, or Christopher Angel) was a priest/monk was born around the year 1575 in Gastrouni, a small in the Peloponnese Region of Western Greece.…
Book of Revelation… Metropolitan John Lindios of Myra – “Interpretation of the Apocalypse” (1791 AD) 29 Aug 202316 Dec 2025 In this article we examine another Greek Orthodox "Historicist" commentator on St. John's Apocalypse written during the Post-Byzantine Exegetical Movement by the Metropolitan John (Iōannēs) Lindios of Myra. Examining some…
Book of Revelation… Saint Neophytos the Recluse of Cyprus and his Byzantine-era ‘Historicist’ Commentary on Revelation (1200s) 9 Jul 202316 Dec 2025 Today we can identify on about a dozen or so full commentaries on the Book of Revelation written by the early church fathers and saints of our church before the…
Book of Revelation… The Woman Clothed with the Sun -The Face of the Virgin Mary in Revelation 12:1 7 Jul 202316 Sep 2023 By Stergio N. Sakkos, Emeritus Professor Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Source: Proceedings of the Theological Conference of the First Metropolis of Thessaloniki "in honor of the Most Holy Theotokos". November 15-17,…
Book of Revelation The Woman of Revelation 12-1, According to the Interpretation of the First Eight Centuries 6 Jul 202329 Aug 2023 The Revelation of John: Philological, historical, hermeneutical, theological problems By Stergio N. Sakkos Emeritus Professor Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Source: Presentations to the Synod of Orthodox Biblical Theologians. Nicosia September 26…
Book of Revelation… Today (June 7) We Remember Saint Anastasios Gordios – A Great Father of Eastern Orthodox Historicist Eschatology (1718) 7 Jun 202316 Dec 2025 Every year on June 7th in the Orthodox Church, we commemorate the newly-canonized Saint Anastasios Gordios (born in 1654, died on June 7, 1729). Saint Anastasios was canonized by the…
Book of Revelation… The Liberation of the Greeks in the Interpretative Work of Theodoret of Ioannina (c. 1740-1823) 6 Jun 202313 Dec 2025 Argyriou, Asterios, "Weather", honorary volume to the colleague Professor Damiano Ath. Doiko, Thessaloniki 1995, pp. 11-24 Translated From Greek to English (May 14, 2023, Jonathan Photius) Codex No. 626 of…