Bishops(i)
9 I Iohn, your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdome and patience of Iesus Christe, was in the Ile that is called Pathmos, for ye worde of God, and for the witnessyng of Iesus Christe
10 I was in the spirite on the Lordes day, and hearde behynde me a great voyce, as it had ben of a trumpe
11 Saying: I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: That thou seest, write in a booke, and sende it vnto the seuen Churches which are in Asia, vnto Ephesus, and vnto Smyrna, and vnto Pergamos, and vnto Thyatira, and vnto Sardis, and vnto Philadelphia, and vnto Laodicea
12 And I turned backe to see the voyce that spake to me: And whe I was turned, I sawe seuen golden candlestickes
13 And in ye middes of the candlestickes, one lyke vnto the sonne of man, clothed with a garment downe to the feete, and girde about the pappes with a golden girdle
14 His head, and his heeres were whyte as whyte wooll, and as snowe, and his eyes were as a flambe of fyre
15 And his feete lyke vnto fine brasse, as though they brent in a furnace, and his voyce as the sounde of many waters
16 And he had in his ryght hande, seuen starres: And out of his mouth went a sharpe two edged sworde: And his face shone, euen as the sunne in his strength
17 And when I sawe hym, I fell at his feete euen as dead: And he layde his ryght hande vpon me, saying vnto me, feare not, I am the first and the last
18 And am alyue, and was dead: And beholde, I am alyue for euermore, Amen, and haue the keyes of hell and of death
19 Write therfore the thinges which thou hast seene, and the thynges which are, and the thinges which must be fulfilled hereafter
20 The misterie of the seuen starres which thou sawest in my ryght hande, and the seuen golde candlestickes. The seuen starres, are the Angels of the seue Churches: And the seuen candlestickes whiche thou sawest, are the seuen Churches