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 REVELATION-

CHAPTIR ANE.

John to the Sewer: Kiri“; and the bran: blinks he had 0’ Christ, on the Lord's Day.

REVEALIN 0’ Jesus Christ, that

God gied to him, to mak kent

to his servants the things that bude

come to pass; and he sent and

schawed by signs, throwe his Angels, to his servitor John :

2. Wha bure witness anent the word 0’ God, and the testifyin 0’ Jesus Christ, and as many things as he saw.

3. Happy he wha reads, happy they wha listen to the words 0’ the Revealin, and keeps the things sae putten-doon ; for the time rows on !

4. OHN to the Seeven Kirks

that are in Asia: lovin-favor to ye, and peace. frae Wha-Is, and

Wha-Was, and Wha-is-to-Be; and

irae the 1seeven Spirits that are

afore his thron.

5. And irae Jesus Christ, the leal witness. “the ﬁrst-born o’ the deid, the heid o’ the kingly was 0’ the yirth.” To him wha lo’es us, and owsed us oot o’ oor sins wi’ his blade,

6. And made 0’ us a. kingdom! priests to his God and Faither; to

im be glorie and dominion for evir

and aye. Amen l 7. Tak tent! he comes in cluds,

and every ee sal see him, and they

that pierced him; and a’ the tribes

o’ the yirth sal mean for him.

8. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says God, “Whale, and

1V. 4. Some expone it as a seeven-fauld manifestation o’ the attributes 0’ God; and some as seeven Archangels o’ r; but we are wyss to hand w1’ the eck o’ the interpreters, wha tak it to mean the Holie Spirit, in a' his mony ways 0’ workin.

Wha-Was, and Wha-is-to-Be, the Almichty ! ”

9. I John, yere brither, and yere marrow in dool, and the kingdom, and the tholin, in Jesus, was i’ the Isle ca’d Patmos, for the sake o’ the word 0' God, and the witness 0’ Jesus.

10. I cam to be i’ the Spirit on the Lord’s Day ; and heard, ahint me, an awfu’ voice as o’ a bugle horn,

ll. Sayin, “ What ye behauld write ye in a buik, and send to the Seeven Kirks 3 to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Per mum, and to Thyatira, and to ardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

12. And I turned me aboot to see the voice that spak to me, and haein turned, I saw seeven gowden lamp- bearers ;

13. And in the mids o’ the seeven gowden lamp-bearers, Ane like as to the Son 0’ Man, eleedit wi’ a mantle doon till his ﬁt, and row’t aboot the breist wi’ a gowden girdin~graith.

14. His heid and his locks white, as the white woo’, as the snaw ; and his can like a lowing 2 ﬁre.

15. And his feet like tae brass made clear, as gin they war meltit in a furnace ; and his voice as the sough o’ mony watirs.

16. And he had in his richt haun seeven stems, and oot 0’ his mou’ gaed forth a keen twa-moothed sword; and his countenance was like the sun shinin in his stren th.

17. And when saw him, I loutit doon at his feet as ane deid. And he laid his richt haun on me, and quo’ he, “Be na ﬂey’t I I am the ﬁrst and the last;

’V. 14. Here, and in many laces. John

quotes or refers to Daniel. ee Dan. vii.

9, and x. 6. The twa men were unco like me anither, i’ the revelations they had.

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