Irenaeus, an influential Christian theologian of the 2nd century, was among the first to interpret this Horseman as Christ himself, his white horse representing the successful spread of the gospel. He is thought to carry a bow (Greek τόξο, toxo) and wear a victor's crown (Greek στέφανος, stephanos).Īs Christ, the Gospel, or the Holy Spirit Albrecht Dürer, Knight, Death and the Devil, 1513 The above passage is a common English translation of the rider of the White Horse (sometimes referred to as the White Rider). Revelation 6:1–2 New American Standard Bible "They were given authority over a quarter of the Earth, to kill with sword, famine and plague, and by means of the beasts of the Earth." Ĭhristianity sometimes interprets the Four Horsemen as a vision of harbingers of the Last Judgment, setting a divine end-time upon the world. The fourth and final horse is green, upon it rides Death, accompanied by Hades. The third, a food merchant, rides a black horse symbolizing famine and carries the scales. The second carries a sword and rides a red horse as the creator of (civil) war, conflict, and strife. In John's revelation the first horseman rides a white horse, carries a bow, and is given a crown as a figure of conquest, perhaps invoking pestilence, Christ, or the Antichrist. The Lamb of God/ Lion of Judah opens the first four of the seven seals, which summons four beings that ride out on white, red, black, and green horses. Revelation 6 tells of a book or scroll in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals.
They are not specifically identified there but subsequent commentary often identifies them as personifications of Death, Famine, War, and Conquest. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are figures in the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Bible, a piece of apocalypse literature written by John of Patmos.
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