C A P. I. '.Agtebe1at:onof the Apocalypfe. 6, done among thefaithfull, fhali bethought tobe forth ofChrift, as if they did not all grow together in him, but were compact together among themfelves into force outward thing apart from him. Patmos. It is an Ifíe ofthe Icarian Sea, thirtymiles about in com- paffe, at this day called 2)almofa, as the later Geographers will have it; But inStraka there isnothing of it memorabe, betides the name. He is wont to make diligent relation and defcriptionof the very Groves where Palmes grow, ifthere be any fuch, much rather would havehave recorded Inch greatmore of them, as fhouldhave made an Iland famous; and thence wemay }uftly fufpeet that name, unleffe the latter ageperhaps fhould havemade it more happy by fuch fer- tileneffe. Monger thinketh, that Fames is that Pofdium wherof Prolomy writes in his Geographical) Tabler, Book 5. Chap. 2. But `Po d:Km there is apromontory of the Ifie Chios, hard by the City of Chios, Whence they fail round about the ifle , andarefituate on the right hand of it. Strobe in his 14. Book. Now PatmOS together with the Coraffions lyeth to theweft of Icaria, thefe to the weft of Sarm's. Strobe in his r o. Book. But you may obferve, that Iohn;; hathnot ey- prcffely made mention ofhis banilhing into this file, but onely of his being there,as who would Phew his modofty in induring,not his boa- Wing inaggravating in any proudmanner his calamity. For the WordofGed: That ir, which had been preached by him,not to be preached. For Iohn went not thither, of his own accord to topreach, but becaúfe he hadpreached at Ephef s, and elfewhere in Afia, hewas exiled thither by the tyrannyof Dominion, as Irenæus reporteth,together with others. The I¡le it felffeems to be almoft de- ferr,and without inhabitants,chiefly feeing Icaria,on which it border- eth, that is far more in account, did yeeld the nfe and fruits of their paftures to ftrangers, by reafonof the fcarcity of inhabitants, as Strobe declareth. t o. NoW IWad taken in the Spirit, The Greek is,/Was in the Spi- rit, that is, I began to be moved and carryed by the Spirit, to fee and undeiftand thofe things which far p ffe the wit ofman, as of old time, the old Prophets, being guided by this lelffame Spirit, did no leffe certainly pronounce of things to come, then of things eitherpre- fent or paft. In like manner fpeaketh Mark of another ¡tan- ner of Spirit , And there Wad in their. Synagoc;n; a' man in an un- cleanfpirit ; Chap. i. 23. And again there met him a man out of the graves in an unclean fpirit, Chap. 5.2. But after a quite can- trary manner of working, not onely in refpe«t of the holineffe E2 and
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