The Book of Revelation, for instance, finds its position as a canonical text among the scripture of the New Testament not through its literality alone (for it has none beyond what can be said of it logistically — that a figure known as John the Apostle, to whom are ascribed the writings known as Johannine Literature, did record, on the island of Patmos, for the benefit of his contemporaries and of the universal Church, a vision of cosmic and supernatural drama, relayed to him by what he maintains was an angel) but for how its symbology can be understood as communicating a truth whose investiture in language, in order to bear itself into the future, must retain some pliancy, latitude, and interpretive breadth.