[162] Jews crucified, by order of Titus, without the walls.
[163] Adommin, the supposed scene of the wounded traveller in the Gospel.
[164] Flowers of Carmel, growing wildly.
[165] The highest point of the island.
[166] It should be remembered, that Domitian was murdered on the 18th of October; this could not have been known at Patmos before the beginning of November.
[167] Applied, generally, to the conquests of Trajan.
[168] Allusive, as generally conceived, to the Emperor Severus.
[169] "To kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth" (Rev. vi. 8).
[170] Rev. iv.
[171] Rev. vii.