A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible
- Heart Knoweth its own Bitterness, The
- Heart of Darkness
- Hell Gate
- Hills, The
- Hireling, The
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth
- Holy Baptism (II)
- Holy Innocents, The
- Holy of Holies, The
- Holy sonnets
- Holy War, The
- I am the Way
- I do not believe that David killed Goliath
- I went to heaven
- I will lift up my eyes unto the hills
- Ichabod
- If it chance your eye offend you
- In death Divided
- In Salem dwelt a glorious king
- In the beginning
- In the beginning was the [3Word3]
- In the Wilderness
- In time of 'The Breaking of the Nations'
- Incarnation and Passion, The
- Iniquity of the fathers upon the children, The
- Isaac's Marriage
- Isle of Patmos, The
- Jacob
- Jacob
- Jacob's Ladder
- Jacob's Ladder, The
- Jacob's Wives
- Jehovah-Jireh
- Jehu
- Jephthah's Daughter
- Jericho
- Jerusalem the golden
- Jesus
- Jesus and his Mother
- Jesus weeping
- Jesus weeping
- Job
- Job I
- John
- Jonah
- Jordan
- Joseph
- Joseph's Coat
- Joshua at Schechem
A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible: Isle of Patmos, The
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The writer of the book of Revelation was in exile on Patmos, off the coast of Turkey
This is an example of apocalyptic literature, full of colourful imagery and symbolism. It contains seven letters to churches in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) who are commended for their zeal or criticised for lack of it. The overall message is that kingdom of God will triumph in the battle against evil and the book ends with a beautiful description of the Heavenly Jerusalem as the symbol of God's presence among humankind in a new heaven and earth.
In the Old Testament refers to periods when the Jews were compelled to leave their land.
Island in the Aegean Sea where John was exiled and experienced the visions recorded in the Book of Revelation.
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