The Explanation of the Apocalypse: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Explanation of the Apocalypse, credited to The Venerable Bede, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Explanation of the Apocalypse by The Venerable Bede. (Translated by Edward Marshall.) Read in English by InTheDesert. The Explanation of the Apocalypse by Ven. Beda is the earliest of the many works of our own writers on that Book, and, as such, may well deserve to appear in a form accessible to English readers. The chief characteristics of Beda's method of exposition may be thus stated. The several visions are considered not to be successive, but contemporaneous, with occasional recapitulations and to represent the condition of the Church in all ages, under different aspects. The thousand years, in the twentieth chapter, are interpreted of the present period of the Church's existence, in accordance with the opinion of St Augustine, in the second part of his De Civitate Dei. The 'attention is closely directed to the text, and to corresponding passages of Holy Scripture, that the meaning of the symbolic language may be elicited. The previous exposition of Tichonius is mainly, but not exclusively followed. Beda appears, for example, to have adopted several opinions from St. Gregory the Great, and Frimasius, as well as St. Augustine. The date of the "Explanation" is circa. A.D. 710 — 716. It is described by Beda as an "Exposition" but it is called an "Explanation" in the printed editions of his works. (From the Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Explanation of the Apocalypse
• Author credits: The Venerable Bede
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 4:14:46

Catalogue topics

• bible
• New Testament
• Britain
• apocalypse
• medieval
• Revelation
• commentary
• allegory

Track guide

1. 00 - The Letter of Beda to Eusebius — 12:55
2. 01 - Revelation Chapter 1 — 11:05
3. 02 - Revelation Chapter 2 — 10:20
4. 03 - Revelation Chapter 3 — 8:01
5. 04 - Revelation Chapter 4 — 7:48
6. 05 - Revelation Chapter 5 — 5:15
7. 06 - Revelation Chapter 6 — 10:09
8. 07 - Revelation Chapter 7 — 15:53
9. 08 - Revelation Chapter 8 — 10:01
10. 09 - Revelation Chapter 9 — 10:38
11. 10 - Revelation Chapter 10 — 4:40
12. 11 - Revelation Chapter 11 — 12:31
13. 12 - Revelation Chapter 12 — 10:34
14. 13 - Revelation Chapter 13 — 11:51
15. 14 - Revelation Chapter 14 — 15:31
16. 15 - Revelation Chapter 15 — 5:03
17. 16 - Revelation Chapter 16 — 12:11
18. 17 - Revelation Chapter 17 — 8:31
19. 18 - Revelation Chapter 18 — 5:25
20. 19 - Revelation Chapter 19 — 11:16
21. 20 - Revelation Chapter 20 — 11:38
22. 21 - Revelation Chapter 21 — 33:41
23. 22 - Revelation Chapter 22 — 9:49

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