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Item description: "Book of Revelation or Apocalypse" - church old slavonic book, modern reprint of edition of 1653. Pages 672, with 73 impessive color illustration and rich color decorative viniettes.
Originated: from tradition of Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers (concervative group of Russian religious dissentents - Old Believers became separated after 1666-1667 from the goverment official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon at 1666. Old Believers continue liturgical practices which the Russian Orthodox Church maintained before the implementation of these reforms. Additionally, Old Ritualists have preserved ancient customs, traditional way of life, ancient clothes of Old Russia, natural rural economy, ancient form of church prayer singing, that continues to draw the attention of other Orthodox Christians, as well as scholars and historians.).
All Old Believers books never have any mark of factory or print house, a stroke of codes, dates of the edition or producing and other numbers. Such marks, numbers or digits are considered by Old Believers belonging to the world of the AntiChrist. All items made by Old Believers, are rare and unique and it is never sold in shops and distributed only inside community due to strong religious restrictions.
Item story: I have received this book at fair in Yaroslavl-town where christians belonged to Old Believers communities from distant villages of Russia sell they products and artifacts.
Measurements:
huge book, 270 x 175 x 45 mmWeigth: 1,5 kg
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Item description in Russian: АПОКАЛИПСИС. Репринт староверческой книги 1913 года. Включает в себя текст Апокалипсиса святого апостола и евангелиста Иоанна Богослова и толкования святого Андрея Кесарийского и других святых отцов (так называемый Апокалипсис трехтолковый). Издание воспроизводит 73 цветных лицевых изображения рукописи XVI века, цветные заставки, буквицы, орнаменты. Крупный церковнославянский текст в две краски, бумага ВХИ (для высоко-художественных изданий), печать офсетная. Не содержит исправлений, внесенных в богослужебные книги патриархом Никоном и его последователями. Не имеет выходных данных типографии, штрих-кода, даты издания и других данных, так как староверами таковые числа считаются относящимися к миру Антихриста. Крепкий книжный блок, сшитый толстыми нитками, твердая обложка, покрытая дермантином. Прекрасный подарок всем, кого интересует древнее древнее православие. Может быть использована для изучения церковно-славянского языка, богослужебного устава, обучения детей и взрослых Слову Божию, для домашней и соборной молитвы и спасения души.
Апокалипсис выражает сущность христианской эсхатологии, основание православных представлений о завершении человеческой истории в Божественном знании. На греческом языке оно означает Откровение. Так называется книга св. Иоанна Богослова, завершающая Новый Завет, где таинственно приоткрываются грядущие судьбы человечества. Это слово говорит о том, что знание о конце человеческой истории - не простое человеческое знание, а знание, открываемое Богом, неотъемлемая часть Его промысла о людях и предвидения грядущих судеб человеческой истории. Божественное Откровение о конечных судьбах человечества содержит не только грозные предупреждения (предостережения) отпавшему от Бога человечеству, но и, несомненно, несет благую весть. Оно благовествует о снятии всех проклятий, о новом небе и новой земле, где не будет ни смерти, ни плача, ни болезни. Оно содержит обетование о совершенном усыновлении человека Богу, о недостижимой в земной истории мере познания Бога, когда люди увидят Бога лицом к Лицу, Бог будет пребывать во всем, а времени уже не будет.
An Explanation of
the Book of Revelation: The Book of Revelation, also called the
Revelation of St. John, the Apocalypse of John, and the Revelation of Jesus
Christ, is the last book of the New Testament. It may be shortened to Revelation,
although is often mispronounced as Revelations. It is the only book in the Canon
that is wholly composed of apocalyptic literature.
The book is addressed by John, "to the seven churches in the province of Asia"
(1:4). The first vision (1:11–3:22), related by "like a son of man, wearing an
ankle-length robe, with a gold sash around his chest," is a statement addressing
the seven churches of Asia.
The second vision, which makes up the rest of the book (chs. 4–22), begins with
"a door was opened in heaven" and it showed things that must be here after.
Revelation describes Mary being with the angels of Enoch, and often described
also, as the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabitants
of the earth, and to any that paid their tax to Herod. Those that paid their tax
were marked on the forehead, but many suffered by refusing to pay their tax.
Those that remained would be rewarded by Mary being blessed with Child. In
Jerusalem Zacharias said that he was a priest and did not contemplate the
where-about of children and Zacharias was murdered at the altar.
Revelation often repeats the same events and Herod had a priest there to take
the Child as soon as it was born. But the people helped the Virgin and she
escaped that night into the wilderness. And the priest departed and made war on
the temple in Jerusalem and the father of the babies. These events are foreseen:
the Great Tribulation, the campaign of Armageddon, the second coming of the
Messiah with the restoration of peace to the world and his 1,000 year reign, the
imprisonment of Satan (portrayed as a dragon) until he is 'loosed' for the final
rebellion, God's final judgment over Satan, the Great White Throne of judgment,
and the ushering in of the New Heavens and New Earth. Alternatively, according
to the Preterist theory, the events of the latter part of the Apocalypse of John
are interpreted as being fulfilled by events in the first century.
Revelation is considered by some to be one of the most controversial and
difficult books of the Bible, with many diverse interpretations of the various
names and events in the account. Martin Luther initially considered Revelation
to be "neither apostolic nor prophetic" and stated that "Christ is neither
taught nor known in it",[8] and placed it in his Antilegomena. John Calvin
believed the book to be canonical, yet it was the only New Testament book on
which he did not write a commentary.
In the fourth century, Gregory of Nazianzus and other bishops argued against
including this book in the New Testament canon, chiefly because of the
difficulties of interpreting it and the danger for abuse. Christians in Syria
also reject it because of Montanism's heavy reliance on it.[10] Ultimately it
was included in the canon though it remains the only book of the New Testament
that is not read within the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Eastern Orthodoxy treats the text as simultaneously describing contemporaneous
events and as prophecy of events to come, for which the contemporaneous events
were a form of foreshadow. It rejects attempts to determine, before the fact, if
the events of Revelation are occurring by mapping them onto present-day events,
taking to heart the Scriptural warning against those who proclaim "He is here!"
prematurely. Instead, the book is seen as a warning to be spiritually and
morally ready for the end times, whenever they may come ("as a thief in the
night"), but they will come at the time of God's choosing, not something that
can be precipitated nor trivially deduced by mortals.
Book of Revelation is the only book of the New Testament that is not read during
services by the Eastern Orthodox Church. In the Coptic Orthodox Church (which is
not in communion with the Eastern Orthodox church but is liturgically similar),
the whole Book of Revelation is read during Apocalypse Night or Bright Saturday
(the eve of the Resurrection).
About Old Believers: Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists or Old Believers, or more correctly, Old Ritualists are Orthodox Christians who adhere to the service books and ritual of the Russian Orthodox Church prior to the reforms made to those books and services by the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Nikon beginning in the year 1653. Opponents of the ecclesiastical reforms of Nikon emerged among all strata of the people and in relatively large numbers. The Old Believers fiercely rejected all innovations, and the most radical amongst them maintained that the official Russian Church had fallen into the hands of the Antichrist. The State church anathematized both the old rites and books and those who wished to stay loyal to them. From that moment, the Old Believers officially lacked all civil rights. The State church had the most active Old Believers arrested, and executed many of them some years later in 1682. After 1685 a period of persecutions began, including both torture and executions. Many Old Believers fled Russia altogether. However, Old Believers became the dominant denomination in many Russian regions, including North and Siberia. Before the Russian Revolution in 1917 there were probably more than 20 million Old Believers located throughout the Russian Empire and in Diaspora, but now after nearly a century of Communist persecution and simple secularization of Russian people, that number probably does not exceed 2 million. Old Ritualists are known for their strict adherence to the practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as it existed prior to Patriarch Nikon. Additionally, Old Ritualists have preserved ancient customs, traditional way of life, ancient clothes of Old Russia, natural rural economy, ancient form of church prayer singing, known as Znamenny Chant, that continues to draw the attention of other Orthodox Christians, as well as scholars and historians.
Group of Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers. Village near Volga river. Circa 1916
Russian Christian Orthodox Old Believers confidently speak about themselves: "Orthodoxy means right teaching, correct doctrine. Orthodox Christianity is the true doctrine of Christ. When Orthodoxy came to the Slavic lands, the term was rendered as pravoslavie – right glorification, which fits the importance attached to worshipping God in beauty as well as in truth. Christianity is concerned with man's salvation from evil. The belief of the mind and the praise of the lips would be hollow if not joined to virtue. And so, true belief and true worship must bear fruit in right conduct, good morals and righteous actions. In Orthodox Christianity, man's mind, soul and body are elevated and ennobled to rise above the merely mundane and to lead what one writer has given as the very definition of Orthodoxy: new life in the Holy Spirit." Now it is still possible to meet this people in remote parts of Russia, mostly in Siberia.
Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers with huge prayer book.
Village at Altay mountains, Syberia. Nova days, 2007
Moral and ethical sense of your purchase in our eBay auction: In the name preservation of a russian cultural heritage from commercial robbery and full disappearance we do not sell antiques older than XIX century. All religious items in our auction are hand-made by Old Believers. Buying the things made by Old Believers, you give material and moral support to their independent community and to ancient religious culture of Old Holy Russia, which has strongly suffered from persecutions in ancient times from Patriarch Nikon reform at 1666-1917, from communistic terror at 1917-1987 and from general secularization of modern society. Thank you for support of unique traditional culture and religion of our people.
About me: as the representative of this Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers community I have an extensive knowledge in religious subjects of ancient Russia. I know well an ancient church art. I have the big collection of religious items and icons. I get subjects for my collection in auctions, antiques shops, church shops, flea markets, at private persons by purchase and by exchange on mutually interesting subjects. Also I visit the remote and wild parts of my huge native land where rare subjects were still kept on the present. Frequently these rare things are in oblivion and still wait for the person, who can understand their beauty and meaning.
Charity: 10% of my eBay income goes for support of small Old Believers community located in North Russia.
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