Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Followingthe Lamb into the New Creation

by Michael J. Gorman

John calls a spade, a spade, as the British chieftain Calgacus also famously did, labeling the Romans “robbers of the world.” “To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire; they make a desolation and they call it ‘peace.’”