„Przyjdę niebawem”. Czas apokalipsy
“I am coming soon”. Apocalypse Now

Summary/Abstract: The Apocalypse of St. John is one of the exegetically most difficult books of the New Testament. Only in this case do there exist numerous uncertainties concerning absolutely fundamental questions: authorship, time of origin, and meanings projected by this extraordinary text. The vision of “the end of all things” presented in the prophecy from Patmos is also highly enigmatic. The exact meaning of key expressions referring to the future: “The time is at hand” (1, 3; 22, 10), “I am coming soon” (3, 11; 22, 12), “Yes, I am coming soon” (22, 20) is not quite clear. The author proposes to decipher the vision of the future presented in St. John’s revelation not chrono-logically but kairo-logically. In a thus understood “time of the Apocalypse” the word: “soon” should not be understood as a distinguished moment at the end of time. The expression from Ap. 1, 3: “The time is at hand” shall, therefore, not signify some sort of an unusual event from the indefinite future or a distinctive moment of time but refer to each moment in turn. The thus understood apocalyptic quality is simply another name for the temporality of human existence. A thus comprehended apocalypse occurs incessantly.

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