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Ven. Bede's Explanation of the Apocalypse (672-735) is one of the oldest preserved comments on St. John's Revelation. Bede thinks the visions to be contemporaneous, with occasional recapitulations, rather than sequential.
He claims that the visions mirror the status of the Church over the years in various ways. In the twentieth chapter, for example, the thousand years are interpreted as the current time of the Church's existence in line with St. Augustine's perspective.
Tichonius' explication before Bede and provides a similar view. Bede also seems to have taken some ideas from St. Gregory the Great, Primasius, and St. Augustine. The "Explanation" was written during A.D. 710-716.
Bede was a prominent teacher and writer of the Early Middle Ages, and many historians regard him as the single most influential scholar of antiquity between the death of Pope Gregory I in 604 and the coronation of Charlemagne in 800. He was named a Doctor of the Church in 1899. He is the only British native to have received this honor
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