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|txtha=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.

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