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APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE During the three centuries leading up to and including the New Testament era, the distinctive kind of literature known as apocalyptic flourished among Jewish writers. The name apocalyptic comes from the Greek apokalypto, meaning to reveal (cf. Rev 1:1). The literature has been given this name because the authors presented their messages in … Continue reading “Apocalyptic Literature”

apocalyptic candlestick Saint John is shown (Apocalypse 1) seven golden candlesticks , and in the midst of them one like to the Son of man, holding in His right hand seven stars. The candlesticks are the seven churches of Asia; the stars, the angels of those churches. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Apocalypse of Baruch baruk. See APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Apocalypse Knights of the an association founded in 1692 at Rome by Agostino Gobrino, for the purpose of defending the Catholic Church against the pope, whom it considered to be the Antichrist. The members always went out armed, and their chief was called Monarch of the Most Holy Trinity. The Inquisition suppressed the association in … Continue reading “Apocalypse Knights of the”

Apocalypse, Four Horses of the The vision of God enthroned upon the Cherubim is described in the Apocalypse 4, 5. In His right hand tbere is a scroll sealed with seven seals. At the opening of four of these, four horses appear (Apocalypse 6), white, red, black, and pale (piebald); they signify conquest, slaughter, famine, … Continue reading “Apocalypse, Four Horses of the”

Apocalypse, Four Horsemen of the The vision of God enthroned upon the Cherubim is described in the Apocalypse 4, 5. In His right hand tbere is a scroll sealed with seven seals. At the opening of four of these, four horses appear (Apocalypse 6), white, red, black, and pale (piebald); they signify conquest, slaughter, famine, … Continue reading “Apocalypse, Four Horsemen of the”

Apocalypse, Book of Apocalypse, from the verb apokalypto, to reveal, is the name given to the last book in the Bible. It is also called the Book of Revelation. Although a Christian work, the Apocalypse belongs to a class of literature dealing with eschatological subjects and much in vogue among the Jews of the first … Continue reading “Apocalypse, Book of”

APOCALYPSE Signifies revelation, but is particularly referred to the revelations which John had in the isle of Patmos, whither he was banished by Domitian. Hence it is another name for the book of Revelation. This book belongs, in its character, to the prophetical writings, and stands in intimate relation with the prophecies of the Old … Continue reading “Apocalypse”

Apmatenu was an Egyptian deity who was generally represented with a jackal’s head and holding the Uas, or Cucufa staff, the emblem of a divine life. He was another form of the deity Apheru. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Apitus (she who is on the hill) was an Egyptian goddess, worshipped in the city of Tuaa, in the Oxyrhynchite or eighteenth nome, on the western side of the Nile, in Middle Egypt. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature