Quotes on the Seven Letters to the Churches of Asia

I'm beefing up and refining my Seven Churches of Asia articles. Here are some interesting quotes from The Apocalypse, The Perennial Revelation of Jesus Christ by Eugenio Corsini:

It is important to see this connection between the vision of the Son of Man and the seven letters, as without it the most immediate point of referral to what is written in the letters is lost. The vision is then seen as some sort of inaugural vision, standing on its own, and the letters also remain somewhat of an enigma, whose presence in the overall structure and message of the book becomes almost impossible to decipher. Tying them together, I believe, helps one to explain the other. (The Apocalypse, The Perennial Revelation of Jesus Christ by Eugenio Corsini p. 81)

[The "Prophetic" Interpretation of the Letters] Reduced to its essentials, this method of interpreting the letters sees in them a prefiguring of various epochs in the history of the Church. It still has adherents, but it was particularly popular among the Fathers, and was continued to Bede the Venerable (7th to 8th Century) and then among various medieval and more recent commentators. (The Apocalypse, The Perennial Revelation of Jesus Christ by Eugenio Corsini, p. 103)