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@@ -113,14 +113,15 @@ participated fully in the imperial cult [@roloff-rev, pp. 164-165].
 
 From this, it seems that the visions John relates are not, or at least not
 merely, about an impending catastrophe which he wants his audience to work to
-avoid, but about a catastrophe -- perhaps, as Leonard Thompson \[CITE\]
-suggests, a catastrophe only visible as a catastrophe from John's apocalyptic
-perspective -- which is already unfolding, which he wants his audience to
-endure. Given this rhetorical drive, John's mythological language, among other
-things, may have functioned to situate the local, present contexts of John's
-audiences within a larger cosmic context, covering the whole of both space and
-time, helping to motivate his audience to participate in John's self-sacrificial
-ethic \[CITE Thompson again\]. Thus, as Ben Witherington III puts it:
+avoid, but about a catastrophe -- perhaps, as Leonard Thompson
+[@thompson-revelation, pp. 27-28] suggests, a catastrophe only visible as a
+catastrophe from John's apocalyptic perspective -- which is already unfolding,
+which he wants his audience to endure. Given this rhetorical drive, John's
+mythological language, among other things, may have functioned to situate the
+local, present contexts of John's audiences within a larger cosmic context,
+covering the whole of both space and time [@thompson-revelation, pp. 28-29],
+helping to motivate his audience to participate in John's self-sacrificial
+ethic. Thus, as Ben Witherington III puts it:
 
 > This material is not _just_ about the future, nor should we have expected it
 > to be since it is narrative forensic rhetoric meant to prepare and exhort
@@ -272,13 +273,13 @@ Humans, and in particular the saints, experience suffering in John's visions,
 but this suffering is not meaningless: it is a test of endurance. Those who
 endure, triumph. A crucial part of how this works is what Thompson calls
 'nesting contexts,' whereby John 'nests' his audiences' local contexts in Asian
-churches inside a bigger, cosmic context \[CITE\]. Their suffering at the hands
-of local elites is part of a wider resistance against an idolatrous imperial
-cult, and that in turn is just the human face of an eschatological battle
-between Jesus and Satan. John's call for his audience to persevere is made more
-compelling if he can convince his audience that their struggles are part of a
-much bigger fight, and one that, because they're on God's side, they cannot
-lose, even if they suffer death.
+churches inside a bigger, cosmic context [@thompson-revelation, pp. 5-6]. Their
+suffering at the hands of local elites is part of a wider resistance against an
+idolatrous imperial cult, and that in turn is just the human face of an
+eschatological battle between Jesus and Satan. John's call for his audience to
+persevere is made more compelling if he can convince his audience that their
+struggles are part of a much bigger fight, and one that, because they're on
+God's side, they cannot lose, even if they suffer death.
 
 Thirdly, like most ancient apocalypses, John's vision explores the end times,
 and this feature also works to strengthen his rhetoric. If the tribulations are
@@ -326,5 +327,4 @@ audience with hope that their sufferings will not be wasted.
 ## TODO
 
 - Explore and give examples of apocalypticism in resistance movements
-- Cite Leonard Thompson
 - Rework argument including introduction and conclusion