Category:Revelation

Rev`e*la"tion, n. Etym: [f. révélation, l. revelatio. See reveal.]

1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what Was before unknown to them.

2. That which is revealed.

3. (theol.) (a) the act of revealing divine truth. (b) that which is revealed by god to man; esp., the bible. By revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as i wrote afore in Few words. Eph. iii. 3.

4. Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the Prophecies of st. John; the apocalypse.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Revelation - An uncovering, a bringing to light of that which had been previously wholly hidden or only obscurely seen. God has been pleased in various ways and at different times (Hebrews 1:1) to make a supernatural revelation of himself and his purposes and plans, which, under the guidance of his Spirit, has been committed to writing. (See WORD OF GOD.) The Scriptures are not merely the "record" of revelation; they are the revelation itself in a written form, in order to the accurate preservation and propagation of the truth. Revelation and inspiration differ. Revelation is the supernatural communication of truth to the mind; inspiration (q.v.) secures to the teacher or writer infallibility in communicating that truth to others. It renders its subject the spokesman or prophet of God in such a sense that everything he asserts to be true, whether fact or doctrine or moral principle, is true, infallibly true.