Literary notes about Apocalypse (AI summary)
The word apocalypse is invoked with multifaceted nuances in literature. In religious texts, it denotes an unveiling of divine mysteries and dramatic visions of judgment, as seen in several chapters detailing cosmic events and prophetic revelations [1], [2], [3], [4]. Beyond its literal biblical setting, writers use the term metaphorically to capture catastrophic personal or societal transformations and to evoke powerful images of finality and renewal [5], [6], [7]. In this way, the apocalypse serves both as a narrative device grounded in prophetic tradition and as a symbol for the profound, often unsettling, shifts inherent in human experience [8], [9].
- Apocalypse Chapter 11 He is ordered to measure the temple.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Apocalypse Chapter 21 The new Jerusalem described.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Apocalypse Chapter 4 The vision of the throne of God, the twenty-four ancients and the four living creatures. 4:1.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Apocalypse Chapter 1 St. John is ordered to write to the seven churches in Asia.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - what an apocalypse of the world within me!
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey - You're threatened with famine, war—the whole Apocalypse.
— from The Fourteenth of July, and Danton: Two Plays of the French Revolution by Romain Rolland - Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an "apocalypse of Nature," a revealing of the "open secret."
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle - Apocalypse Chapter 12 The vision of the woman clothed with the sun and of the great dragon her persecutor.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Apocalypse Chapter 20 Satan is bound for a thousand years.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete