revelation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: revelation	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for revelation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
revelation n the speech act of making something evident [syn: disclosure, revelation, revealing] an enlightening or astonishing disclosure communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency Synonym(s): revelation, divine revelation the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle Synonym(s): Revelation, Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Apocalypse, Book of Revelation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Revelation \Rev`ela"tion\, n. [F. r[82]v[82]lation, 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.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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 (Heb. 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 presevation 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.