STRONGS G3963:
Πάτμος,
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. 403f; (
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:
Revelation 1:9. It has been held by the church, ever since the time of (
Justin Martyr (dialog contra Trypho, § 81, p. 308 a. 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 and 6.
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