12 Are not you from long-ago, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O Jehovah, you have placed him for judgment and you, O Rock, have established him for correction.
13 And one similar to a son of man
was in the middle of the seven lamp-stands. He has clothed himself with a long-robe and the breasts are girded around with a golden belt.
14 Now his head and his hair were white like white wool,
like snow, and his eyes were like a flame of fire;
15 and his feet similar to polished brass, like what has been refined in a furnace, and his voice like the voice of many waters.
16 And he has in his right hand seven stars and a sharp two edged long-sword traveled out from his mouth and his appearance was as the sun appears in its power.
17 And when I saw him, I fell like one dead at his feet. And he placed his right
hand upon me, saying,
Do not fear; I am the first and the last,
18 and the Living One, and I became dead and behold, I am living forevermore and I have the keys of death and of Hades. Amen.
19 Therefore write the things which you saw, and the things which are, and the things which are about to happen after these things.
20 The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lamp-stands is this : the seven stars are the messengers of the seven congregations and the seven lamp-stands are seven congregations.