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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1780 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

501–600

The Sixth Century

1 work

c. 540

Latin

Commentary on the Apocalypse

Primasius of Hadrumetum · d. c. 560

A North African exposition drawing heavily on Tyconius and Augustine, reading the visions as the church's present struggle rather than a timetable.

Western · CommentaryRevelationRead elsewhere

701–800

The Eighth Century

1 work

c. 703–709

Latin

Commentary on Revelation

The Venerable Bede · c. 673 – 735

Bede's earliest book, written in his twenties, dividing Revelation into seven recapitulating sections after Tyconius and firmly against reading it as a calendar. The thousand years are the age of the church, and the numbers are meanings rather than dates.

Anglo-Saxon · CommentaryRevelationDanielMatthew2 ThessaloniansRead elsewhere