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9: 12.

The one Woe has passed.

Look! two more woes are coming after it.

(The Four Angels Loosed.)

And the Sixth Angel blew,

And I heard a voice from the horns of the gold

Altar

Which is before God,

Saying to the Sixth Angel
Who had the Trumpet:

"Loose the four angels

Which are bound at the Great River Euphrates." And the four angels were loosed

Who had been prepared for the hour and day
And month and year, ·

So that they should kill the third part of men.
And the number of the armies of the cavalry

Was twice ten thousand times ten thousand.

I heard the number of them.

And thus I saw the horses in the vision,
And those who were sitting on them,
With fiery-red breastplates,

And smoky blue and sulphurous yellow;
And the heads of the horses

Were like the heads of lions;

And out of their mouths

Was going fire and smoke and sulphur.

By these three plagues

Was the third part of men killed,

By the fire and the smoke and the sulphur,
Which was going out of their mouths.

For the power of the horses is in their mouth,
And in their tails,

For their tails were like serpents,

And had heads;

And with them they kept doing harm.

And the rest of mankind,

Who were not killed with these plagues,

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Did not change their mind nor the purpose of their heart

Concerning the works of their hands,

So that they should not worship demons,

And the idols of gold and of silver and of brass And of stone and of wood,

Which can neither see nor hear nor walk:

And they did not change their mind nor the purpose of their heart

Concerning their murders, nor their sorceries, Nor their fornication, nor their thefts.

10: 1.

PROEM BEFORE SEVENTH TRUMPET. PART I.

(John's New Inspiration.)

And I saw another Angel, a strong one,

Coming down 'out of heaven,

Clothed with a cloud,

And the rainbow was on his head,

And his face was like the sun,

And his feet like pillars of fire,

And he had in his hand a Little Book opened.

And he set his right foot on the sea,

And his left on the earth,

And he cried in a loud voice,

Like a lion roars.

And when he cried,

The Seven Thunders spoke with their own Voices.

And when the Seven Thunders spoke,

I was on the point of writing,

And I heard a Voice from heaven,
Saying:

"Seal up what the Seven Thunders said,
And do not write it."

10:5.

And the Angel whom I saw standing on the sea,

And on the earth,

Lifted up his right hand to heaven,

And sware by him who lives forever and ever,
Who created heaven and what is in it,
And the earth and what is in it,

And the sea and what is in it,

That there should be delay no longer :

But in the days of the Voice of the Seventh Angel, When he is on the point of blowing,

The secret truth of God should be accomplished, As he told the Good News to his slaves the Prophets.

And the Voice which I heard from heaven, I heard again talking with me and saying: "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the Angel,

Who is standing on the sea,

And on the land."

And I went to the Angel,

And told him to give me the Little Book.

And he said to me:

"Take it,

And eat it up;

And it will make your belly bitter,

But in your mouth it will be sweet as honey."

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And I took the Little Book out of the Angel's hand,

And ate it up;

And it was in my mouth sweet as honey;

And when I had eaten it my belly was made bitter. And they said to me :

"You must prophesy again over many peoples, And nations, and tongues, and kings."

PROEM BEFORE SEVENTH TRUMPET.

PART 2.

(The Holy City During Heathen Prophecy of the War Against God.)

And I was given a Reed like a rod.

And some one said:

"Rise and measure the Sanctuary of God,

And the Altar,

And those worshipping in it,

And the court which is outside the Sanctuary
Throw it outside, and do not measure it.

For it has been given to the nations;

And the Holy City will they tread under foot
Forty-two months.

And I shall give authority to my Two Witnesses,

And they will prophesy twelve hundred and sixty

days,

Clothed in sackcloth."

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