Description Ven. Bede's Explanation of the Apocalypse (672-735) is one of the oldest preserved comments on St. John's Revelation. Bede thinks the visions to be contemporaneous, with occasional recapitulations, rather than sequential. He claims that the visions mirror the status of the Church over the years in various ways. In the twentieth chapter, for example, the thousand years are interpreted as the current time of the Church's...