Πάτμος
τοῖς πράγμασιν γὰρ οὐχὶ θυμοῦσθαι χρεών· μέλει γὰρ αὐτοῖς οὐδέν· ἀλλ' οὑντυγχάνων τὰ πράγματ' ὀρθῶς ἂν τιθῇ, πράξει καλῶς → It does no good to rage at circumstance; events will take their course with no regard for us. But he who makes the best of those events he lights upon will not fare ill.
English (Strong)
of uncertain derivation; Patmus, an islet in the Mediterranean: Patmos.
English (Thayer)
Πατμου, ἡ, Patmos, a small and rocky island in the Aegean Sea, reckoned as one of the Sporades (Thucydides 3,33; Strabo 10, p. 488; Pliny, h. n. 4,23); now called Patino or (chiefly in the middle ages (Howson)) Palmosa and having from four to five thousand Christian inhabitants (cf. Schubert, Raise in das Morgenland, Th. iii., pp. 425-443; Bleek, Vorless. üb. die Apokalypse, p. 157; Kneucker in Schenkel iv., p. 403 f; (BB. DD. under the word)). In it John , the author of the Apocalypse, says the revelations were made to him of the approaching consummation of God's kingdom: Justin Martyr (dialog contra Trypho, § 81, p. 308a. cf. Eusebius, h. e. 4,18, 8; see Charteris, Canonicity, chapter 34:and note)and) Irenaeus adv. haer. 5,30, that this John is the Apostle; see Ἰωάννης, 2,6.
