Rev. i. 9.PATHMOS, an Island of the Ægean Sea, one of the Sporades, whither the Apostle and Evangelist St. John was banished, in the Year of Christ, or of the common Æra 94. ‘Twas in this Island that he had his Revelations or Apocalypsis. The greatest Part of Interpreters think, that he writ them in the same Place, during the two Years of his Exile; but others think, that he did not commit them to Writing, till after his Return to Ephesus. The Island of Pathmos is between the Island of Icaria and the Promontory of Miletus. Nothing has done it more Honour, than to have been the Place of the Banishment of St. John. ‘Tis now called Patino, or Pactino, or Patmol. Its Circuit is five and twenty or thirty Miles. It has a City called Patmos, with a Harbour, and some Monasteries of Greek Monks. They shew you a Cave, where they pretend St. John writ his Revelations.
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