Definition of "apocalypses" []

• Plural form of apocalypse. (noun)

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• "Many books of the class called apocalypses were written during this period of the history in which the writers tried to comfort their readers by prophesying that the Lord would soon descend from heaven with armies of angels or would send his Messiah to drive out the Romans and set up his own kingdom."
• "Far removed from the kingly, messianic hopes of the people and the supernatural visions of the apocalypses were the plain, direct, practical ideals of Israel's great ethical prophets."
• "Underlying all the apocalypses is the eternal truth voiced by the poet: "God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.""