December 22.

REVELATION, X.

December 22.

dred thousand thousand: and in their tails: for their tails I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat

were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. And the rest on them, having breastplates of the men which were not of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth, and

killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: neither repented they of their mur­ders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

CHAPTER X. December 22, Evening.

ANT ND I saw another mighty| that there should be time angel come down from no longer: but in the days heaven, clothed with a cloud: of the voice of the seventh and a rainbow was upon his angel, when he shall begin to head, and his face was as it sound, the mystery of God were the sun, and his feet as should be finished, as he pillars of fire: and he had in hath declared to his servants his hand a little book open: the prophets. And the voice and he set his right foot upon which I heard from heaven the sea, and his left foot on spake unto me again, and the earth, and cried with a said, Go and take the little loud voice, as when a lion book which is open in the roareth: and when he had hand of the angel which cried, seven thunders uttered standeth upon the sea and their voices. And when the upon the earth. And I went seven thunders had uttered unto the angel, and said unto their voices, I was about to him, Give me the little book. write and I heard a voice And he said unto me, Take from heaven saying unto me, it, and eat it up; and it shall Seal up those things which make thy belly bitter, but it the seven thunders uttered, shall be in thy mouth sweet and write them not. And as honey. And I took the the angel which I saw stand little book out of the angel's upon the sea and upon the hand, and ate it up; and it earth lifted up his hand to was in my mouth sweet as heaven, and sware by him honey: and as soon as I had that liveth for ever and ever, eaten it, my belly was bit­who created heaven, and the ter. And he said unto me, things that therein are, and Thou must prophesy again the earth, and the things that before many peoples, and therein are, and the sea, and nations, and tongues, and the things which are therein, I kings.