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1584 The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle

15 And the four angels were loosed, who were 3 And he cried with a loud voice as when a lion
prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, roareth. And when he had cried, seven thunders
and a year: for to kill the third part of men. uttered their voices.
16 And the number of the army of horsemen
4 And when the seven thunders had uttered
was twenty thousand times ten thousand. And I
their voices, I was about to write: and I heard
heard the number of them.
a voice from heaven saying to me: Seal up the
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision: and
things which the seven thunders have spoken;
they that sat on them, had breastplates of fire
and write them not.
and of hyacinth and of brimstone, and the heads
of the horses were as the heads of lions: and 5 And the angel, whom I saw standing upon
from their mouths proceeded fire, and smoke, the sea and upon the earth, lifted up his hand to
and brimstone. heaven,
18 And by these three plagues was slain the
6 And he swore by him that liveth for ever and
third part of men, by the fire and by the smoke
ever, who created heaven, and the things which
and by the brimstone, which issued out of their
are therein; and the earth, and the things which
mouths.
are in it; and the sea, and the things which are
19 For the power of the horses is in their
therein: That time shall be no longer.
mouths, and in their tails. For, their tails are
like to serpents, and have heads: and with them 7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh
they hurt. angel, when he shall begin to sound the trumpet,
20 And the rest of the men, who were not slain the mystery of God shall be finished, as he hath
by these plagues, did not do penance from the declared by his servants the prophets.
works of their hands, that they should not adore 8 And I heard a voice from heaven again
devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, speaking to me, and saying: Go, and take the
and stone, and wood, which neither can see, nor
book that is open, from the hand of the angel
hear, nor walk: who standeth upon the sea, and upon the earth.
21 Neither did they penance from their mur-
ders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their for- 9 And I went to the angel, saying unto him,
that he should give me the book. And he said to
nication, nor from their thefts.
me: Take the book, and eat it up: and it shall
make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall
Chapter 10 be sweet as honey.

10 And I took the book from the hand of the
And I saw another mighty angel come down from
angel, and ate it up: and it was in my mouth,
heaven, clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow was
sweet as honey: and when I had eaten it, my
on his head, and his face was as the sun, and his
belly was bitter.
feet as pillars of fire.
2 And he had in his hand a little book open: 11 And he said to me: Thou must proph-
and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his esy again to many nations, and peoples, and
left foot upon the earth. tongues, and kings.