Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
REVELATIONS
Noun
revelations
plural of revelation
Proper noun
Revelations
Misconstruction of Revelation (“final book of the New Testament”)
Source: Wiktionary
REVELATION
Rev`e*la"tion, n. Etym: [F. révélation, L. revelatio. See Reveal.]
1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.
2. That which is revealed.
3. (Theol.) (a) The act of revealing divine truth. (b) That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote afore in few words. Eph. iii. 3.
4. Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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