“The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.”

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter 8, p. 199

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