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patmos
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What does patmos mean?
proper noun
- An island of the Dodecanese, Greece.
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In this retirement—a Patmos amid the howling ocean of popery that surrounds us—a letter from England has reached me at last.
From Patmos men go unto Ephesus, a fair city and nigh to the sea.
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During a persecution of the Christians, the aged John of Patmos has been secretly conveyed, by some faithful disciples, to a cave in the desert, where he is dying.
We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of the Apocalypse.