The Expositor‘s Bible: The Book of Revelation

William Milligan‘s The Expositor‘s Bible: The Book of Revelation is a lucid and reverent commentary on the New Testament‘s most enigmatic apocalypse. Rather than treating Revelation as a mere timetable of future events, Milligan reads it as a symbolic, liturgical, and theological vision of Christ‘s victory amid the conflict between the Church and the powers of evil. His prose combines Victorian eloquence with careful exegesis, situating the book within Johannine theology, biblical prophecy, and the devotional aims of The Expositor‘s Bible series. Milligan, a distinguished Scottish theologian and professor at the University of Aberdeen, was deeply shaped by patristic learning, Reformed conviction, and close attention to the Greek New Testament. His broader scholarship on St. John helped him approach Revelation not as an isolated curiosity but as part of a coherent apostolic witness. His ecclesial commitments also inform his concern with worship, witness, suffering, and hope. This volume is recommended to readers seeking a historically significant, theologically serious introduction to Revelation. It will especially reward pastors, students, and thoughtful lay readers who want interpretation that is scholarly yet spiritually attentive.