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one murders with the sword, with the sword he must be murdered. Here is the endurance and the faith of the holy. I also saw another beast como up

out of the earth; who possessed two horns like :1 lamb, but spoke like a dragon. And he exercised the whole of the authority of the Bret beast in his sight. He also subdued the earth and its inhabitants to serve the first beast whose deadly wound had been healed. He also produced great wonders, so that he could make fire descend from the sky to the earth in the sight of mankind. And he could deceive the inhabitants of the earth by the wonders which he has been allowed to produce in the sight of the beast; commanding the dwellers upon the earth, that they must raise an image in honour of the beast who had received the sword-thrust, and ted t lived. P {eermission was granim to infuse breath into the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could both speak and cause to be put to death whoever would not worship the image of the beast. He also forced all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, to receive a mark upon their right hand, or upon their forehead ; so that no one should be allowed to buy or sell, except those possessing that mark, the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let who- ever has intelligence adjudge the number of the beast: the number is a human one; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six. 14 I looked, and saw the Lamb stand- ing upon the Mount Zion; and with Him one hundred and £orty—four thousand, having His name, and the name of His Father, written upon their foreheads. Then I heard a voice from the heaven resembling the sound of many waters, and as the sound of loud thunder; then I heard the voice which was like harpers harping upon their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne, before the four Beings and the elders; but no one was able to learn that song, ex- cept the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been purchased from the earth. These are they who were not polluted with women; for of the Lamb wherever He goes. These were purchased from among mankind, the first-fruit for God and for the Lamb. And in their mouth no they are pure. These are the followers falsehood was found; they are spotless. Then I saw another angel dying in

mid·air, having to announce the good tidings of an everlasting reward to those sitting upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and language, and race; saying with a loud voice: ‘ Reverence God, and give Him honour! because the hour of His judgment has arrived; therefore pay homage to the Maker of the heaven, and the earth, and sea, and springs of Then another, a second, followed,

Babylon the great has fallen, has fallen! who madeall the heathen drunk with the wine of her furious fornications !' Then another angel, a third, fol-

lowed them, saying with a loud voice: ‘ lf any one pays homage to the beast and his image, and receives a mark upon his forehead, or upon his hand, he shall also drink of the wine of the fury of God, mixed undiluted inthe cup of His indignation; and he shall be tortured with Divine fire in the [E sight of the holy angels, and in the sight of the Lamb; and the smoke of their rx torture shall rise up to the eternities! And those who pay homage to the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name, shall have no rest day or night. ‘ However, there is consolation for

the holy; those who keep the com- mands of God and the faith of jesus} I also heard a voice from heaven,

Write, Happy are the dead who die in the Lord from now.’ for they shall rest from their labours; and their works accompany them} Again I looked and saw. a white

cloud; and upon the cloud One sitting like a. Son of Man, wearing a golden crown upon His head, and holding a sharp scythe in His hand. Then another angel coming out

from the sanctuary, called with a loud voice to the One sitting upon the cloud, ‘ Send out your scythe, and reap: for harvest time has come; because the harvest of the earth is over—ripe.‘ So the One sitting upon the cloud

swung His scythe over the ground; and the earthwas reaped l Then another angel came out of 1264 !2 16