Revelation 1:1-20 - Exposition

Revelation 3:1-22

THE INTRODUCTION . Most writers agree that the first three chapters are introductory. They may be thus subdivided:

Revelation 1:1-3 , the superscription;

Revelation 1:4-8 , the address and greeting;

Revelation 1:9-20 , the introductory vision;

Revelation 2:1-29 ; Revelation 3:1-22 , the epistles to the seven Churches of Asia.

The earliest systematic commentator on the Apocalypse in the Greek Church, Andreas of Caesarea, in Cappadocia (A.D). 450-500), divides it into twenty-four λόγοι , or narratives, to correspond with the twenty-four elders; and each of these into three κεφάλαια , or chapters, to correspond with body, soul, and spirit, making seventy-two chapters in all.