Book
of Revelation
(As reveled to the Apostle John)
Tyndale's Translation Presented by The Master's Table
Chapter 1
1 The reuelacion of Iesus Christe which god gave vnto him for to shewe vnto
his servauntes thinges which muste shortly come to passe. And he sent and shewed
by his angell vnto his servaunt Ihon
2 which bare recorde of the worde of god and of the testimony of Iesus Christe
and of all thinges yt he sawe.
3 Happy is he that redith and they that heare the wordes of the prophesy and
kepe thoo thinges which are written therin. For the tyme is at honde.
4 Ihon to the .vii. congregacios in Asia. Grace be with you and peace from him
which is and which was and which is to come and from the .vii. spretes which
are present before his trone
5 and from Iesus Christ which is a faythfull witnes and fyrst begotte of the
deed: and Lorde over the kinges of the erth. Vnto him that loved vs and wesshed
vs fro synnes in his awne bloud
6 and made vs kinges and Prestes vnto God his father be glory and dominion for
ever more. Amen.
7 Beholde he commeth with cloudes and all eyes shall se him: and they also which
peersed him. And all kinredes of ye erth shall wayle. Even so. Amen.
8 I am Alpha and Omega the begynninge and the endinge sayth the Lorde almyghty
which is and which was and which is to come.
9I Ihon youre brother and companyon in tribulacion and in the kyngdom and pacience
which is in Iesu Christe was in the yle of Pathmos for the worde of god and
for ye witnessynge of Iesu Christe.
10 I was in the sprete on a sondaye and herde behynde me a gret voyce as it
had bene of a trompe
11 sayinge: I am Alpha and Omega the fyrst and the laste. That thou seist write
in a boke and sende it vnto the congregacions which are in Asia vnto Ephesus
and vnto Smyrna and vnto Pargamos and vnto Thiatira and vnto Sardis and vnto
Philadelphia and vnto Laodicia.
12 And I turned backe to se the voyce that spake to me. And when I was turned:
I sawe .vii golde candelstyckes
13 and in the myddes of the cadelstyckes one lyke vnto ye sone of ma clothed
with a lynnen garmet doune to the ground and gyrd aboute the pappes with a golden
gyrdle
14 His heed and his heares were whyte as whyte woll and as snowe: and his eyes
were as a flame of fyre:
15 and his fete lyke vnto brasse as though they brent in a fornace: and his
voyce as the sounde of many waters.
16 And he had in his right honde vii. starres. And out of his mouth wet a sharpe
twoo edged swearde. And his face shone eve as the sonne in his strength.
17 And when I sawe him I fell at his fete even as deed. And he layde hys ryght
honde apon me sayinge vnto me: feare not. I am the fyrst and the laste
18 and am alyve and was deed. And beholde I am alyve for ever more and have
the kayes of hell and of deeth.
19 wryte therfore the thynges which thou haste sene and the thynges which are
and the thynges which shalbe fulfylled hereafter:
20 and ye mystery of the vii. starres which thou sawest in my ryght honde and
the vii. golden candelstyckes. The vii. stares are the messengers of the vii.
congregacios: And the vii. candlestyckes which thou sawest are the vii. congregacions.
Chapter 2
1 Unto the messenger of the congregacion of Ephesus wryte: These thynges sayth
he that holdeth the vii. starres in his right honde and walketh in the myddes
of the vii. golden candlestyckes
2 I knowe thy workes and thy labour and thy pacience and howe thou cannest not
forbeare the which are evyll: and examinedst them which saye they are Apostles
and are not: and hast founde them lyars
3 and dydest wasshe thy self. And hast pacience: and for my names sake hast
labored and hast not faynted.
4 Neverthelesse I have sumwhat agaynst the for thou haste lefte thy fyrst love.
5 Remember therfore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the fyrst
workes. Or elles I wyll come vnto the shortly and will remove thy candlestyke
out of his place excepte thou repent.
6 But this thou haste because thou hatest ye dedes of the Nicolaitans which
dedes I also hate.
7 Lett him yt hath eares heare what ye sprete sayth vnto the congregacions.
To him that overcometh will I geve to eate of the tree of lyfe which is in the
myddes of ye paradice of god.
8 And vnto the angell of the congregacion of Smyrna wryte: These thynges sayth
he that is fyrst and the laste which was deed and is alive.
9 I knowe thy workes and tribulacion and poverte but thou art ryche: And I knowe
the blaspemy of them whiche call them selves Iewes and are not: but are the
congregacio of sathan.
10 Feare none of thoo thynges which thou shalt soffre. Beholde the devyll shall
caste of you into preson to tempte you and ye shall have tribulacion .x. dayes.
Be faythfull vnto the deeth and I will geve the a croune of lyfe.
11 Let him that hath ears heare what the sprete sayth to the congregacions:
He that overcometh shall not be hurte of the seconde deeth.
12 And to the messenger of the congregacion in Pergamos wryte: This sayth he
which hath ye sharpe swearde with two edges.
13 I knowe thy workes and where thow dwellest evyn where Sathans seat ys and
thou kepest my name and hast not denyed my fayth. And in my dayes Antipas was
a faythfull witnes of myne which was slayne amonge you where sathan dwelleth.
14 But I have a fewe thynges agaynst the: yt thou hast there they that mayntayne
the doctryne of Balam which taught in balake to put occasion of syn before the
chylderne of Israhell that they shulde eate of meate dedicat vnto ydoles and
to commyt fornicacion.
15 Even so hast thou them that mayntayne the doctryne of the Nicolaytans which
thynge I hate.
16 But be converted or elles I will come vnto the shortly and will fyght agaynste
the with thes wearde of my mouth
17 Lett him that hath eares heare what the sprete sayth vnto the congregacios:
To him that overcommeth will I geve to eate manna that is hyd and will geve
him a whyte stone and in the stone a newe name wrytten which no ma knoweth savinge
he that receaveth it.
18 And vnto the messenger of the congregacion of Theatira write: This sayth
the sonne of god which hath his eyes lyke vnto a flame of fyre whose fete are
like brasse:
19 I knowe thy workes and thy love service and fayth and thy paciece and thy
dedes which are mo at the last then at the fyrste.
20 Notwitstondinge I have a feawe thynges agaynst the that thou sofferest that
woman Iesabell which called her sylfe a prophetes to teache and to deceave my
servauntes to make them commyt fornicacion and to eate meates offered vppe vnto
ydoles.
21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornicacion and she repented not.
22 Beholde I will caste her into a beed and them yt commyt fornicacion wt her
into gret adversite excepte they tourne fro their deades.
23 And I will kyll her children with deeth. And all the congregacions shall
knowe that I am he which searcheth ye reynes and hertes. And I will geve vnto
evere one of you accordynge vnto youre workes.
24 Vnto you I saye and vnto other of them of Thiatyra as many as have not this
lerninge and which have not knowen the depnes of Satha (as they saye) I will
put apo you none other burthe
25 but yt which ye have alreddy. Holde fast tyll I come
26 and whosoever overcometh and kepeth my workes vnto the ende to hym will I
geve power over nacios
27 and he shall rule them with a rodde of yron: and as the vessels of a potter
shall he breake them to shevers. Eve as I receaved of my father
28 eue so will I geve him ye mornynge starre.
29 Let him yt hath eares heare what the sprete sayth to the congregacions.
Chapter 3
1 And wryte vnto the messenger of the congregacion of Sardis: this sayth he
that hath the sprete of god and the vii. starres. I knowe thy workes thou haste
a name that thou lvyest and thou art deed
2 Be awake and strength the thynges which remayne that are redy to dye. For
I have not founde thy workes perfaycte before god.
3 Remember therfore how thou hast receaved and hearde and hold faste and repet.
Yf thou shalt not watche I will come on ye as a thefe and thou shalt not knowe
what houre I wyll come apon the
4 Thou haste a feawe names in Sardis which have not defyled their garmentes:
and they shall walke with me in whyte for they are worthy
5 He that overcometh shalbe clothed in whyte araye and I will not put out his
name out of the boke of lyfe and I will confesse his name before my father and
before his angelles.
6 Let him that hath eares heare what the sprete sayth vnto the congregacions.
7 And wryte vnto ye tydinges bringer of ye cogregacio of Philadelphia: this
sayth he yt is holy and true which hath ye keye of Dauid: which openyth and
noma shutteth and shutteth and no ma openeth.
8 I knowe thy workes. Beholde I have set before the an open doore and no man
can shut it for thou haste a lyttell strengthe and haste kept my sayinges: and
haste not denyed my name.
9 Beholde I make them of the congregacion of Sathan which call them selves Iewes
and are not but do lye: Beholde: I will make them that they shall come and worshippe
before thy fete: and shall knowe that I love the.
10 Because thou hast kept ye wordes of my paciece therfore I will kepe ye fro
the houre of teptacion which will come upo all ye worlde to tempte them yt dwell
vpo the erth.
11 Beholde I come shortly. Holde that which thou haste that no man take awaye
thy croune
12 Him that overcometh will I make a pyllar in the temple of my God and he shall
goo no more oute. And I will wryt vpo him the name of my God and the name of
ye cite of my god newe Ierusale which cometh doune oute of heve fro my God and
I will wryte vpon him my newe name.
13 Let him that hath eares heare what the sprete sayth vnto the congregacions.
14 And vnto the messenger of ye congregacio which is in Laodicia wryte: This
sayth (ame) the faythfull and true witnes ye begynninge of the creatures of
God.
15 I knowe thy workes yt thou arte nether colde nor hot: I wolde thou were colde
or hotte.
16 So then because thou arte bitwene bothe and nether colde ner hot I will spew
ye oute of my mouth:
17 because thou sayst thou arte riche and incresyd wt goodes and haste nede
of nothynge and knowest not howe thou arte wretched and miserable poore blinde
and nakyd.
18 I counsell the to bye of me golde tryed in the fyre that thou mayste be riche
and whyte raymet yt thou mayste be clothed yt thy fylthy nakednes do not apere:
and anoynt thyne eyes with eye salve yt thou mayste se.
19 As many as I love I rebuke and chasten. Be fervent therfore and repet.
20 Beholde I stode at the doore and knocke. Yf eny man heare my voyce and opon
the dore I will come in vnto him and will suppe with him and he with me.
21 To him that overcommeth will I graunte to sytt with me in my seate evyn as
I overcam and have sytten with my father in his seate.
22 Lett him yt hath eares heare what the sprete sayth vnto the congregacions.
Chapter 4
1 After this I loked and beholde a dore was open in heven and the fyrste voyce
which I harde was as it were of a trompet talkinge with me which said: come
vp hydder and I will shewe the thynges which must be fulfyllyd hereafter
2 And immediatly I was in the sprete: and beholde a seate was put in heven and
one sate on the seate.
3 And he that sat was to loke apo like vnto a iaspar stone and a sardyne stone:
And there was a rayne bowe aboute the seate in syght lyke to an Emeralde.
4 And aboute the seate were .xxiiii. seates. And upon the seates .xxiiii. elders
syttinge clothed in whyte rayment and had on their heddes crounes of gold.
5 And out of the seate proceded lightnynges and thundrynges and voyces and there
wer vii. lampes of fyre burninge before ye seate which are the vii. sprettes
of God.
6 And before the seate there was a see of glasse lyke vnto cristall and in the
myddes of the seate and rounde aboute the seate were iiii. bestes full of eyes
before and behynde.
7 And the fyrste best was lyke a lion the seconde best lyke a calfe and ye thyrde
beste had a face as a man and the fourthe beste was like a flyinge egle.
8 And the iiii. bestes had eche one of them vi. wynges aboute him and they were
full of eyes with in. And they had noo reste daye nether nyght sayinge: holy
holy holy lorde god almyghty which was and is and is to come.
9 And when those beestes gave glory and honour and thankes to him that sat on
the seate which lyveth for ever and ever:
10 the xxiiii. elders fell doune before him that sat on the trone and worshipped
him that lyveth for ever and caste their crounes before the trone sayinge:
11 thou arte worthy lorde to receave glory and honoure and power for thou haste
created all thinges and for thy wylles sake they are and were created.
Chapter 5
1 And I sawe in the right honde of him that sat in ye trone a boke written with
in and on the backside sealyd with vii. seales.
2 And I sawe a stronge angell which cryed with a loude voyce: Who is worthy
to open the boke and to loose the seales therof.
3 And no man in heven ner in erth nether vnder the erth was able to open the
boke nether to loke thereon.
4 And I wepte moche because no man was founde worthy to open and to rede the
boke nether to loke thereon.
5 And one of the elders sayde unto me: wepe not: Beholde a lion beinge of the
tribe of Iuda the rote of Dauid hath obtayned to open the boke and to lose the
vii. seales therof.
6 And I behelde and loo in the myddes of the seate and of the .iiii. bestes
and in the myddes of the elders stode a lambe as though he had bene kylled which
had vii. hornes and vii. eyes which are the spretes of God sent into all the
worlde.
7 And he cam and toke the boke oute of the right honde of him that sate apon
the seate.
8 And when he had take the boke the .iiii. bestes and xxiiii. elders fell doune
before the labe havynge harpes and golden vialles full of odoures which are
the prayers of saynctes
9 and they songe a newe songe saynge: thou art worthy to take ye boke and to
ope ye seales therof: for thou waste kylled and haste redemed vs by thy bloud
out of all kynreddes and tonges and people and nacions
10 and haste made vs vnto oure god kynges and prestes and we shall raygne on
the erth.
11 And I behelde and I herd the voyce of many angylles aboute the trone and
about the bestes and the elders and I herde thousand thousandes
12 saynge wt a lowde voyce: Worthy is the lambe that was killed to receave power
and riches and wisdom and strenghte and honoure and glory and blyssynge.
13 And all creatures which are in heven and on the erth and vnder the erth and
in the see and all that are in them herd I sayinge: blyssinge honour glory and
power be vnto hym that sytteth apon the seate and vnto the lambe for ever more.
14 And the .iiii. bestes sayd: Ame. And the .xxiiii. elders fell apon their
faces and worshypped him that lyveth for ever more.
Chapter 6
1 And I sawe when the lambe openyd one of the seales and I herde one of the
iiii. bestes saye as it were the noyse of thonder come and se.
2 And I sawe and beholde there was a whyte horsse and he that sat on him had
a bowe and a croune was gevyn vnto him and he went forth conqueringe and forto
overcome.
3 And when he opened the secode seale I herde the seconde beste saye: come and
se.
4 And there went out another horsse that was red and power was geven to him
that satte thereon to take peace from the erth and that they shulde kyll one
another. And there was geven vnto him a gret swearde.
5 And when he opened ye thyrde seale I herde the thyrde beste saye: come and
se. And I behelde and loo a blacke hors: and he that sate on him had a payre
of balances in his honde.
6 And I herd a voyce in the myddes of the .iiii. bestes saye: a measure of whete
for a peny and iii. measures of barly for a peny: and oyle and wyne se thou
hurte not.
7 And when he opened the fourthe seale I herde the voyce of the fourthe beste
saye: come and se.
8 And I loked and beholde a grene horsse and his name that sat on him was deeth
and hell folowed after him and power was geven vnto them over the fourthe parte
of the erth to kyll with swearde and with honger and with deeth that cometh
of vermen of the erth.
9 And when he opened the fyfte seale I sawe vnder the aultre the soules of them
that were kylled for the worde of God and for the testymony which they had
10 and they cryed with a lowde voyce sayinge: How loge tariest thou lorde holy
and true to iudge and to avenge oure bloud on them that dwell on the erth?
11 And longe whyte garmentes were geven vnto every one of them. And it was sayde
vnto them that they shulde reste for a lyttle season vntyll the nomber of their
felowes and brethre and of them that shulde be kylled as they were were fulfylled.
12 And I behelde when he opened the sixte seale and loo there was a grett erth
quake and the sunne was as blacke as sacke clothe made of heare. And the mone
wexed even as bloud:
13 and the starres of heven fell vnto the erth even as a fygge tree castith
from her her fygges when she is shaken of a myghty wynde.
14 And heven vanysshed awaye as a scroll whe it is rolled togedder. And all
mountayns and yles were moved oute of their places.
15 And the kynges of the erth and the gret men and the ryche men and the chefe
captaynes and the myghty men and every bond man and every free man hyd them
selves in dennes and in rockes of the hylles
16 and sayde to the hylles and rockes: fall on vs and hyde vs from the presence
of him that sytteth on the seate and from the wrath of the lambe
17 for the grete daye of hys wrath ys come And who can endure it.
Chapter 7
1 And after that I sawe .iiii. angels stonde on the iiii. corners of ye erth
holdynge ye iiii. wyndes of the erth that ye wyndes shulde not blowe on the
erthe nether on the see nether on eny tree.
2 And I sawe another angell ascende from the rysynge of the sunne: which had
the seale of the lyvynge god and he cryed with a loude voyce to the iiii angelles
(to whom power was geven to hurt the erth and the see)
3 saying: Hurt not the erth nether the see nether the trees tyll we have sealed
ye servauntes of oure god in their forheddes.
4 And I herde the nombre of them which were sealed and there were sealed an
C. and xliiii. M. of all the trybes of the chyldren of Israhell.
5 Of the trybe of Iuda were sealed xii.M Of the trybe of Ruben were sealed xii.M.
of the trybe of Gad were sealed xii.M.
6 Of the trybe of Asser were sealed xii.M. Of the trybe of Neptalym were sealed
xii.M. Of the trybe of Manasses were sealed xii.M.
7 Of ye trybe of Symeo were sealed xii.M. Of ye tribe of Leuy were sealed xii.M.
Of ye trybe of Isacar were sealed xii.M.
8 Of the trybe of zabulon weee sealed xii.M. Of the tribe of Ioseph were sealed
xii.M. Of the trybe of Beniamin were sealed xii. thowsande.
9 After this I behelde and lo a gret multitude (which noma coulde nombre) of
all nacios and people and tonges stode before the seate and before the lambe
clothed with longe whyte garmentes and palmes in there hondes
10 and cryed with a lowde voyce sayinge: salvacion be asscribed to him that
syttith apon the seate of oure god and vnto the lambe.
11 And all the angelles stode in the compase of the seate and of the elders
and of the iiii. bestes and fel before the seat on their faces and worshipped
god
12 sayinge amen: Blessynge and glory wisdome and thankes and honour and power
and myght be vnto oure god for evermore Amen.
13 And one of the elders answered sayinge vnto me: what are these which are
arayed in longe whyte garmentes and whence cam they?
14 And I sayde vnto him: lorde thou wottest. And he sayde vnto me: these are
they which cam oute of gret tribulacion and made their garmetes large and made
them whyte in the bloud of the lambe:
15 therfore are they in the presence of the seate of God and serve him daye
and nyght in hys temple and he that sytteth in the seate wyll dwell amonge them.
16 They shalt honger no more nether thyrst nether shall the sunne lyght on them
nether eny heate:
17 For the lambe which ys in the myddes of the seate shall fede them and shall
ledde them vnto fountaynes of lyuynge water and god shall wype awaye all teares
from their eyes.
Chapter 8
1 And when he had opened the seventh seale there was silence in heven aboute
the space of halfe an houre.
2 And I sawe angelles stondynge before god and to them were geven vii. trompettes.
3 And another angell cam and stode before the aultre havynge a golden senser
and moche of odoures was geven vnto him that he shulde offre of the prayers
of all saynctes apon the golden aultre which was before ye seate.
4 And ye smoke of the odoures which came of ye prayers of all saynctes ascended
vppe before god out of ye angelles honde.
5 And ye angell toke the senser and fylled it with fyre of the aultre and caste
it into the erth and voyces were made and thondrynges and lightnynges and erthquake.
6 And the .vii. angells which had the .vii. tropettes prepared them selves to
blowe.
7 The fyrst angell blewe and there was made hayle and fyre which were myngled
with bloud and they were caste into ye erth: and the thryd parte of trees was
burnt and all grene grasse was brent.
8 And ye seconde angell blewe: and as it were a gret mountayne: burnynge wt
fyre was caste in to the see and the thyrde parte of the see tourned to bloud
9 and the thyrde parte of the creatures which had lyfe dyed and the thyrde part
of shippes were destroyed.
10 And the thyrde angell blewe and ther fell a grett starre from heven burnynge
as it were a lampe and it fell into the thyrde parte of the ryvers and into
fountaynes of waters
11 and the name of the starre is called wormwod. And ye thyrde part was turned
to wormwod. And many me dyed of the waters because they were made bytter.
2 And the fourth angell blew and the thyrde parte of the sunne was smytten
and the thyrde parte of the mone and ye thyrde part of starres: so that the
thyrde parte of them was darckned. And the daye was smytten that the thyrde
part of it shulde not shyne and lyke wyse ye nyght.
13 And I behelde and herd an angell flyinge thorowe the myddes of heven sayinge
with a lowde voyce: Woo wo to the inhabiters of the erth because of the voyces
to come of the trompe of the .iii. angells which were yet to blowe.
Chapter 9
1 And the fyfte angell blewe and I sawe a stare fall from heven vnto the erth.
And to him was geven the kaye of the bottomlesse pytt.
2 And he opened the botomlesse pytt and there arose the smoke of a grett fornace.
And the sunne and the ayer were darkned by the reason of the smoke of the pytt.
3 And there cam out of the smoke locustes vpo the erth: and vnto them was geve
power as the scorpions of the erth have power.
4 And it hurt ye grasse of the erth: nether eny grene thinge: nether eny tree:
but only those me which have not ye seale in their forhedes
5 and to the was comaunded yt they shulde not kyll the but yt they shulde be
vexed v monethes and their payne was as the payne yt cometh of a scorpion whe
he hath stoge a ma.
6 And in those dayes shall men seke deeth and shall not fynde it and shall desyre
to dye and deeth shall flye fro the.
7 And the similitude of the locustes was lyke vnto horses prepared vnto battayll
and on their heddes were as it were crownes lyke vnto golde: and their faces
were as it had bene the faces of men.
8 And they had heare as the heare of wemen. And their tethe were as the tethe
of lyons.
9 And they had habbergions as it were habbergions of yron. And the sounde of
their wynges was as the sounde of charettes when many horsses runne to gedder
to battayle.
10 And they had tayles lyke vnto scorpions and there were stinges in their tayles.
And their power was to hurt men v. monethes.
11 And they had a kynge over them which is the angell of the bottomlesse pytt
whose name in the hebrew tonge is Abadon: but in the greke tonge Apollion.
12 One woo is past and beholde two wooes come after this.
13 And the sixte. angell blewe and I herd a voyce from the iiii. corners of
the golden aultre which is before god
14 saying to the sixte angell which had the trompe: Loose the iiii. angelles
which are bounde in the grett ryver Eufrates.
15 And the iiii. angelles were loosed which wer prepared for an houre for a
daye for a moneth and for a yeare for to slee the thyrde part of me.
16 And the nombre of horsme of warre were twenty tymes xM. And I herde the nobre
of them.
17 And thus I sawe the horses in a vision and them yt sate on the havynge fyry
habbergions of a Iacyncte coloure and brymstony and the heeddes of ye horses
werre as the heeddes of lyons. And out of their mouthes went forth fyre and
smoke and brymstone.
18 And of these iii. was the thyrde parte of men kylled: that is to saye of
fyre smoke and brymstone which proceded out of the mouthes of them:
19 For their power was in their mouthes and in their tayles: for their tayles
were lyke vnto serpetes and had heedes and with them they dyd hurt:
20 And the remnaunt of the me which were not kylled by these plages repented
not of the dedes of their hondes that they shulde not worshyppe devyls and ymages
of golde and sylver and brasse and stone and of wood which nether can se nether
heare nether goo.
21 Also they repented not of their murther and of their sorcery nether of their
fornacion nether of their thefte.
Chapter 10
1 And I sawe another myghtye angell come doune from heven clothed with a cloude
and the rayne bowe apon his heed. And hys face as it were the sunne and his
fete as yt were pyllars of fyre
2 and he had in his honde a lytell boke opyn: and he put his ryght fote apon
the see and his lyfte fote on the erth.
3 And cryed with a lowde voyce as when a lyon roreth. And when he had cryed
seven thondres spake their voyces.
4 And whe the vii. thondres had spoken their voyces I was aboute to wryte. And
I herde a voyce from heven sayinge vnto me seale vp thoo thynges which the vii.
thondres spake and write them not.
5 And the angell which I sawe stonde apon the see and apon the erth lyfte vppe
his honde to heven
6 and swore by him that liveth for ever more which created heven and the thynges
that ther in are and the see and the thynges which therin are: that there shulde
be no lenger tyme:
7 but in the dayes of the voyce of the seventh angell when he shall begyn to
blowe: eve the mistery of god shalbe fynisshed as he preached by his servauntes
ye prophetes.
8 And the voyce which I herde from heven spake vnto me agayne and sayde: goo
and take the lytle boke which ys open in the honde of the angell which stondeth
apon the see and apon the erth.
9 And I went vnto the angell and sayde to him: geve me the lytle boke and he
sayd vnto me: take it and eate it vp and it shall make thy belly bytter but
it shalbe in thy mouth as swete as hony.
10 and I toke the lytle boke out of his honde and ate it vp and it was in my
mouth as swete as hony and as sone as I had eate it my belly was bytter.
11 And he sayde vnto me: thou muste prophesy agayne amonge the people and nacions
and tonges and to many kynges.
Chapter 11
1 And then was geven me a rede lyke vnto a rodd and it was sayd vnto me: Ryse
and mete the temple of god and the aultre and them that worshippe therin
2 and the quyre which is within the temple cast oute and mete it not: for it
is gevyn vnto the gentyles and the holy cite shall they treade vnderfote .xlii.
monethes.
3 And I will geve power vnto my two wytnesses and they shall prophesy .M.iic.
and .lx. dayes clothed in sacke cloth.
4 These are two olyve trees and two cadlestyckes stodinge before ye god of ye
erth
5 And if eny man will hurt them fyre shall procede out of their mouthes and
consume their ennemyes. And yf eny ma will hurt the this wyse muste he be kylled.
6 These have power to shut heven that it rayne not in the dayes of their prophesyinge:
and have power over waters to turne them to bloud and to smyte the erth wt almaner
plages as often as they will.
7 And when they have fynysshed their testimony the beste that cam oute of the
bottomlesse pytt shall make warre agaynst them and shall overcome them and kyll
them.
8 And their boddyes shall lye in the stretes of the greate cite which spritually
is called zodom and Egypte where oure lorde was crucified.
9 And they of the people and kynredes and tonges and they of the nacions shall
se their bodyes .iii. dayes and an halfe and shall not suffre their boddyes
to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell apon the erth shall reioyce over them and be glad and
shall send gyftes one to another for these two prophetes vexed them yt dwelt
on the erth.
11 And after .iii. dayes and an halffe the sprete of lyfe from god entred into
the. And they stode vp apo their fete: and greate feare came apon the which
sawe them.
12 And they herde a greate voyce from heven saying vnto the. Come vp hidder.
And they ascended vp into heven in a cloude and their ennemyes sawe the.
13 And ye same houre was ther a gret erth quake and the tenthe parte of the
cite fell and in the erth quake were slayne names of men seven .M. and the remnaunt
were feared and gave glory to god of heven.
14 The seconde woo is past and beholde ye thyrd woo wyll come ano
15 And the seventh angell blewe and therwere made great voyces in heve sayinge:
the kyngdoms of this worlde are oure lordes and his christes and he shall raygne
for ever more.
16 And the .xxiiii. elders which sytt before god on their seates fell apon their
faces and worshipped God
17 sayinge: we geve the thankes lorde God allmyghte: which arte and wast and
arte to come for thou haste receaved thy great myght and hast raygned.
18 And the nacions were angry and thy wrath is come and the tyme of ye deed
that they shuld be iudged and that thou shuldest geve rewarde vnto thy servauntes
the prophettes and saynctes and to them that feare thy name small and great
and shuldest destroye them which destroye ye erth.
19 And the temple of God was openyd in heve and there was sene in his teple
the arcke of his testamet: and ther folowed lyghtnynges and voyces and thondrynges
and erth quake and moche hayle.
Chapter 12
1 And ther appered a gret wonder in heve A woman clothed with the sunne and
the mone vnder her fete and apon her heed a croune of xii. starres.
2 And she was wt chylde and cryed travayllinge in byrth and payned redy to be
delyvered.
3 And ther appered another wonder in heven for beholde a gret red drago havynge
.vii. heddes and ten hornes and crounes vpo his heddes:
4 and his tayle drue the thyrde parte of the starres and cast them to the erth.
And the dragon stode before the woman which was reddy to be delyvred: for to
devoure her chylde as sone as it were borne.
5 And she brought forth a man chylde which shulde rule all nacions with a rode
of yron And her sonne was taken vp vnto God and to his seate.
6 And the woman fleed into wyldernes where she had a place prepared of god that
they shulde fede her there a M.ii.C and lx. dayes.
7 And ther was grett battayll in heven Michael and his angells fowght with the
dragon and the dragon fowght and his angelles
8 and prevaylled not: nether was their place founde eny more in heven.
9 And the grett dragon that olde serpent called the devyll and Sathanas was
cast out. Which desceaveth all the worlde. And he was cast into the erth and
his angelles were cast out also.
10 And I harde a lowde voyce sayinge: in heve is nowe made salvacio and strengthe
and ye kyngdome of oure God and the power of his Christ For he is cast doune
which accused them before god daye and nyght.
11 And they overcame him by the bloude of the lambe and by the worde of their
testimony and they loved not their lyves vnto the deeth.
12 Therfore reioyce hevens and ye that dwell in them. Woo to the inhabiters
of the erth and of the see: for ye devyll is come doune vnto you which hath
greet wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short tyme.
13 And when the dragon sawe that he was caste vnto the erth he persecuted the
woman which brought forth the man chylde.
14 And to the woman were geven two wynges of a great egle that she myght flye
into the wyldrenes into her place where she is norysshed for a tyme tymes and
halffe a tyme from the presence of the sarpent.
15 And the dragon cast out of his mouth water after the woman as it had bene
a ryver because she hulde have bene caught of the floud.
16 And the erth holpe the woman and the erth opened her mouth and swalowed vp
the rever which the dragon cast out of hys mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman: and went and made warre with the
remnaunt of hyr sede which kepe the commaundmentes of god and have the testimony
of Iesus Christe. And I stode on the see sonde.
Chapter 13
1 And I sawe a best rise out of the see havinge vii. heddes and x. hornes and
apon hys hornes x. crownes and apon his heed the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I sawe was lyke a catt of the mountayne and his fete were
as the fete of a bear and his mouth as the mouthe of a lyon. And the dragon
gave him his power and his seate and grett auctorite:
3 and I sawe one of his heedes as it were wouded to deth and his dedly woude
was healed. And all the worlde wondred at the beast
4 and they worshipped ye drago which gave power vnto the beest and they worshipped
the beest sayinge: who is lyke vnto the beast? who is able to warre with him?
5 And ther was a mouth geve vnto him that spake great thinges and blasphemies
and power was geve vnto him to do xlii. Monethes
6 And he opened his mowth vnto blasphemy agaynst God to blaspheme hys name and
his tabernacle and them that dwell in heven.
7 And it was geven vnto him to make warre with the saynctes and to overcome
them. And power was geven him over all kynred tonge and nacion:
8 and all that dwell apon the erth worshipt him: whose names are not written
in the boke of lyfe of the lambe which was kylled from the begynnynge of the
worlde.
9 Yf eny man have an eare lett him heare.
10 He that leadeth into captivite shall goo into captivite: he that kylleth
with a swearde must be kylled with a swearde. Heare is the pacience and the
fayth of the saynctes.
11 And I behelde another best commynge vp oute of the erth and he had two hornes
like a lambe and he spake as dyd the dragon.
12 And he dyd all that the fyrste beest coulde do in his presence and he caused
the erth and them which dwell therin to worshippe the fyrst beest whose dedly
woude was healed.
13 And he dyd grett wonders so that he made fyre come doune from heven in the
syght of men.
14 And deceaved them that dwelt on the erth by the meanes of those signes which
he had power to doo in the sight of the beest sayinge to the that dwelt on the
erth: that they shuld make an ymage vnto the beest which had the woude of a
swearde and dyd lyve.
15 And he had power to geve a sprete vnto the ymage of the beest and that the
ymage of the beest shuld speake and shuld cause that as many as wolde not worshyppe
the ymage of the beest shuld be kylled.
16 And he made all bothe smale and grett ryche and poore fre and bond to receave
a marke in their right hondes or in their forheddes.
17 And that no ma myght by or sell save he that had the marke or the name of
the beest other the nombre of his name.
18 Here is wisdome. Let him that hath wytt count the nombre of the beest. For
it is the nombre of a man and his nombre is sixe hondred threscore and sixe.
Chapter 14
1 And I loked and loo a lambe stode on the mount Syon and with him C. and xliiii.
thousande havynge his fathers name written in their forhedes.
2 And I herde a voyce from heven as the sounde of many waters and as the voyce
of a gret thoundre And I herde the voyce of harpers harpynge with their harpes.
3 And they songe as it were a newe songe before the seate and before the foure
beestes and the elders and no man coulde learne that songe but the hondred and
xliiii.M. which were redemed from the erth.
4 These are they which were not defyled with wemen for they are virgyns. These
folowe the lambe whither soever he goeth. These were redemed from men beynge
the fyrste frutes vnto God and to the lambe
5 and in their mouthes was foude no gyle. For they are with oute spott before
the trone of god.
6 And I sawe an angell flye in the myddes of heven havynge an everlastynge gospell
to preache vnto them that sytt and dwell on the erth and to all nacions kinreddes
and tonges and people
7 sayinge with a lowde voyce: Feare God and geve honour to him for the houre
of his iudgement is come: and worshyppe him that made heven and erth and the
see and fountaynes of water.
8 And there folowed another angell sayinge: Babilon is fallen is fallen that
gret cite for she made all nacions drynke of the wyne of hyr fornicacion.
9 And the thyrde angell folowed them sayinge with aloude voyce: Yf eny man worshippe
the beest and his ymage and receave hie marke in his forhed or on his honde
10 the same shall drynke of the wyne of the wrath of God which is powred in
the cuppe of his wrath. And he shalbe punnysshed in fyre and brymstone before
the holy Angels and before the lambe.
11 And the smoke of their turment ascendeth vp evermore. And they have no rest
daye ner nyght which worshippe ye beast and his ymage and whosoever receaveth
the prynt of his name.
12 Here is the pacience of saynctes. Heare are they that kepe the commaundmentes
and the fayth of Iesu.
13 And I herde a voyce from heven sayinge vnto me: wryte. Blessed are the deed
which here after dye in the lorde even soo sayth the sprete: that they maye
rest fro their laboures but their workes shall folowe them.
14 And I loked and beholde a whyte clowde and apon the clowde one syttynge lyke
vnto the sonne of man havynge on his heed a golde crowne and in his honde a
sharpe sykle.
15 And another angell came oute of the temple cryinge with a lowde voyce to
him that sate on the clowde. Thruste in thy sycle and repe: for the tyme is
come to repe for the corne of the erth is rype.
16 And he that sate on the clowde thrust in his sykle on the erth and the erth
was reped.
17 And another angell came oute of the temple which is in heven havynge also
a sharpe sycle.
18 And another angell came oute from yt aultre which had power over fyre and
cryed with a lowde crye to him that had the sharpe sykle and sayde: thrust in
thy sharpe sykle and gaddre the clusters of the erth for her grapes are rype.
19 And the angell thrust in his sykle on the erth and cut doune the grapes of
the vyneyarde of the erth: and cast them into the gret wynefat of the wrath
of god
20 and the wynefat was trodden with out the cite and bloud came oute of the
fat eve vnto the hors brydles by the space of a thowsande and .vi.C. furlonges.
Chapter 15
1 And I sawe another signe in heve grett and mervellous .vii. angells havynge
the seven laste plages for in the is fulfylled ye wrath of god.
2 And I sawe as it were a glassye see mingled with fyre and the that had gotten
victory of the beest and of his ymage and of his marke and of the nombre of
his name stode on the glassye see havinge ye harpes of god
3 and they songe the songe of Moses the servaunt of god and the songe of the
lambe sayinge. Gret and marvellous are thy workes Lorde god almyghty iuste and
true are thy wayes kynge of saynctes.
4 Who shall not feare o lorde and gloryfy thy name? For thou only arte holy
and all gentylls shall come and worshippe before the for thy iudgmentes are
made manyfeste.
5 And after that I loked and beholde ye temple of the tabernacle of testimony
was opyn in heven
6 and the seven angelles cam out of the temple which had the seven plages clothed
in pure and bryght lynnen and havynge their brestes gyrded with golden gerdelles.
7 And one of the fowre beestes gave vnto ye seve angells vii. golden vialles
full of ye wrath of God which lyveth for ever more.
8 And the temple was full of the smoke of the glory of God and of his power
and no man was able to entre into the temple tyll the seven plages of the seven
angels were fulfilled.
Chapter 16
1 And I herde a great voyce out of ye temple sayinge to the seven angels: goo
youre wayes poure out youre vialles of wrath apon the erth.
2 And the fyrst went and poured out his viall apo the erth and there fell anoysom
and a sore botche apo the me which had the marke of the best and ap on the which
worshipped his ymage.
3 And the seconde angell shed out his viall apon ye see and it turned as it
were into the bloud of a deed ma: and every lyvinge thynge dyed in the see.
4 And ye thyrde angell shed out his vyall apon the ryvers and fountaynes of
waters and they turned to bloud.
5 And I herde an angell saye: lorde which arte and wast thou arte ryghteous
and holy because thou hast geve soche iudgmentes
6 for they shed out the bloude of sayntes and prophettes and therfore hast thou
geven them bloud to drynke: for they are worthy.
7 And I herde another out of the aultre saye: even soo lorde god almyghty true
and righteous are thy iudgementes.
8 And the fourth angell poured out his viall on the sunne and power was geve
vnto him to vexe men with heate of fyre.
9 And the men raged in gret heate and spake evyll of the name of God which had
power over those plages and they repented not to geve him glory.
10 And the fifte angell poured out his vyall apon the seate of the beste and
his kyngdome wexed derke and they gnewe their tonges for sorowe
11 and blasphemed the god of heven for sorowe and payne of their sores and repented
not of their dedes.
12 And the sixte angell poured out his vyall apon the gret ryver Euphrates and
the water dryed vp that the wayes of the kyngss of the este shulde be prepared.
13 And I sawe thre vnclene sprettes lyke frogges come out of the mouthe of the
dragon and out of the mouthe of the beeste and out of the mouthe of the falce
prophett.
14 For they are the sprettes of devyls workynge myracles to go out vnto the
kynges of the erth and of the whole worlde to gaddre them to the battayle of
that gret daye of God allmyghty.
15 Beholde I come as a thefe. Happy is he that watcheth and kepeth his garmentes
Lest he be founde naked and men se his filthynes.
16 And he gaddered them togedder into a place called in the hebrue tonge Armagedon.
17 And the seventhe angell poured out his viall in to the ayre. And there came
a voyce out of heven from the seate sayinge: it is done.
18 And there folowed voyces thondringes and lightnynges and there was a grett
erthquake soche as was not sence men were apon the erth so myghty an erthquake
and so grett.
19 And the greate cite was devyded into thre parties And the cities of nacions
fell. And grett Babilon came in remembraunce before God to geve vnto hyr the
cuppe of wyne of the fearcenes of his wrathe.
20 Every yle fled awaye and the mountaynes were not founde.
21 And ther fell a gret hayle as it had bene talentes out of heven apon the
men and the men blasphemed God be cause of the plage of the hayle for it was
grett and the plage of it sore.
Chapter 17
1 And there cam one of the seven angels which had the seven vialles and talked
with me sayinge vnto me: come I will shewe the the iudgment of the grett whore
that sytteth apon many waters
2 with whome have commytted fornicacion the kynges of the erth so that the inhabiters
of the erth are droken with the wyne of her fornicacion.
3 And he caryed me a waye into the wildernes in the sprete. And I sawe a woman
sytt apon a rose colored best full of names of blaphemie which had ten hornes.
4 And the woman was arayed in purple and rose color and decked with golde precious
stone and pearles and had a cup of golde in her honde full of a hominacions
and fylthynes of her fornycacion.
5 And in her forhed was a name wrytten a mistery gret Babylon the mother of
whordome and abominacions of the erth.
6 And I sawe the wyfe dronke with the bloud of saynctes and with the bloud of
the witnesses of Iesu.
And when I sawe her I wondred with grett mervayle.
7 And the angell sayde vnto me: wherfore mervayllyst thou? I wyll shewe the
ye mistery of the woman and of the best that berith her which hath seven heddes
and ten hornes.
8 The best that thou seest was and is not and shall ascende out of the bottomlesse
pytt and shall goo into perdicion and they that dwell on the erth shall wondre
(whose names are not wrytten in the boke of lyfe from ye begynnynge of the worlde)
when they beholde the best that was and ys nott.
9 And here ys a mynde that hath wisdome. The seven heddes are seven mountaynes
on which the woman sytteth:
10 they are also seven kynges. Fyve are fallen and on ys and onother is not
yet come. Whe he cometh he muste contynew a space.
11 And the beste that was and ys not is even the ayght and ys one of the seven
and shall goo into destruccion.
12 And the ten hornes which thou seist are ten kynges which have receaved no
kyngdome but shall receave power as kynges at one houre with the beest.
13 These have one mynde and shall geve their power and strenghte vnto ye beste.
14 These shall fyght with the lambe and the lambe shall overcome them: For he
is lorde of lordes and kynge of kynges: and they that are on hys syde are called
and chosen and faythfull.
15 And he sayde vnto me: the waters which thou sawest where the whore syttith
are people and folke and nacions and tonges.
16 And the ten hornes which thou sawest apon the best are they that shall hate
the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eate their flesshe
and burne her with fyre.
17 For God hathe put in their hertes to fulfyll hys wyll and to do with one
consent for to geve hir kyngdom vnto the beast vntill the wordes of God be fulfylled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest ys that gret cyte which raigneth over the
kynges of the erth.
Chapter 18
1 And after that I sawe another angell come from heven havinge gret power and
the erth was lyghtned with hys bryghtnes.
2 And he cryed myghtyly with a stronge voyce sayinge: Great Babilon is fallen
ys fallen and ys become the habitation of devels and the holde of all fowle
sprettes and a cage of all vnclene and hatefull byrdes
3 for all nacions have dronken of the wyne of the wrath of her fornycacion.
And the kynges of the erth have committed fornicacion with her and her marchauntes
are wexed ryche of the abundance of her pleasures.
4 And I herde another voyce from heven saye: come a waye from her my people
that ye be not parttakers in her synnes that ye receave not of her plages.
5 For her synnes are gon vp to heven and God hath remembred her wyckednes.
6 Rewarde her even as she rewarded you and geve her dubble accordynge to her
workes. And poure in dubble to her in the same cuppe which she fylled vnto you.
7 And as moche as she gloryfied her silfe and lyved wantanly so moche poure
ye in for her of punysshment and sorowe for she sayde in her herte: I sytt beinge
a quene and am no wyddowe and shall se no sorowe.
8 Therfore shall her plages come at one daye deeth and sorowe and honger and
she shallbe brent with fyre: for stronge ys the lorde god which iudgeth her.
9 And the kynges of the erth shalbe wepe her and wayle over her which have committed
fornicacion with her and have lyved wantanly with her when they shall se the
smoke of her burnynge
10 and shall stonde a farre of for feare of her punnysshment sayinge: Alas Alas
that gret cite Babilon that myghty cite: For at won houre is her iudgment come.
11 And the marchauntes of the erth shall wepe and wayle in them selves for no
man wyll bye their ware eny more
12 the ware of golde and silver and precious stones nether of pearle and raynes
and purple and skarlet and all thyne wodde and almanner vessels of yvery and
almanner vessels of most precious wodde and of brasse and of yron
13 and synamon and odours and oyntmentes and frankynsence and wyne and oyle
and fyne floure and wheate bestes and shepe and horsys and charrettes and boddyes
and soules of men.
14 And the apples that thy soule lusted after are departed fro the. And all
thynges which were deyntie and had in pryce ar departed fro the and thou shalt
fynde them no more.
15 The marchauntes of these thynges which were wexed ryche shall stonde a farre
of from her for feare of the punyshment of her wepynge and waylynge
16 and saying: alas alas that grett cite that was clothed in raynes and purple
and scarlett and decked with golde and precious stone and pearles:
17 for at one houre so great ryches ys come to nought And every shippe governer
and all they that occupied shippes and shippmen which worke in the see stode
a farre of
18 and cryed when they sawe the smoke of her burnynge sayinge what cite is lyke
vnto this grett cite?
19 And they cast dust on their heddes and cryed wepynge and waylinge and sayed:
Alas Alas yt greate cite wherin were made ryche all that had shyppes in the
see by the reason of her costlynes for atone houre is she made desolate
20 Reioyce over her thou heven and ye holy Apostles and prophetes: for god hath
geven youre iudgment on her.
21 And a myghty angell toke vp a stone lyke a grett mylstone and cast it into
the see sayinge: with suche violence shall that gret cite Babilon be cast and
shallbe founde no more.
22 And the voyce of harpers and musicions and of pypers and trompetters shalbe
herde no more in the: and no craftes man of whatsoever craft he be shalbe founde
eny more in the. and the soude of a myll shalbe herde no more in the
23 and the voyce of the brydegrome and of the bryde shalbe herde no more in
the: for thy marchauntes were ye grett men of ye erth. And with thyne inchantment
were deceaved all nacions:
24 and in her was founde the bloude of the prophettes and of ye saynctes and
of all that were slayne apon ye erth.
Chapter 19
1 And after yt I herde ye voyce of moche people in heven sayinge: Alleluia.
Saluacion and glory and honour and power be ascribed to ye lorde oure god
2 for true and ryghteous are his iudgmentes for he hath iudged ye grett whore
which did corrupt the erth with her fornicacion and hath avenged the bloud of
his servauntes of her hond.
3 And agayne they said: Alleluya. And smoke rose vp for evermore.
4 And the xxiiii. elders and the iiii. bestes fell doune and worshypped god
that sate on the seate sayinge: Amen Alleluya.
5 And a voyce cam out of the seate saying: prayse oure lorde god all ye that
are his servauntes and ye that feare him both small and grett.
6 And I herde the voyce of moche people eve as the voyce of many waters and
as the voyce of stronge thondrynges sayinge: Alleluya for god omnipotent raigneth.
7 Let vs be glad and reioyce and geve honour to him: for the mariage of the
lambe is come and hys wyffe made her sylfe reddy.
8 And to her was graunted that she shulde be arayed with pure and goodly raynes.
For the raynes is the ryghtewesnes of saynctes.
9 And he sayde vnto me: happy are they which are called vnto the Labes supper.
And he sayde vnto me: these are the true sayinges of God.
10 And I fell at his fete to worshyppe him. And he sayde vnto me se thou do
it not. For I am thy felowe seruaunt and one of thy brethern and of them that
have the testimony of Iesus. Worshyppe God. For the testymony of Iesus ys the
sprete of prophesy.
11 And I sawe heven open and beholde a whyte horsse: and he that sat apon him
was faythfull and true and in ryghtewesnes dyd iudge and make battayle.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fyre: and on his heed were many crounes: and
he had a name written yt noman knewe but him sylfe.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipt in bloud and and hys name ys called
the worde of God.
14 And the warriers which were in heven folowed him apon whyte horsses clothed
with whyte and pure raynes:
15 and out of his mouthe went out a sharppe swerde that with yt he shuld smyte
the hethen. And he shall rule them with a rodde of yron and he trode the wynefatt
of fearsnes and wrath of almyghty god.
16 And hath on his vesture and on his thygh a name written: kynge of kynges
and lorde of lordes.
17 And I sawe an angell stonde in the sunne and he cryed with a lowde voyce
sayinge to all the fowles that flye by ye myddes of heve come and gaddre youre
selves to gedder vnto the supper of the gret god
18 that ye maye eate the flesshe of kynges and of hye captaynes and the flesshe
of myghty men and the flesshe of horsses and of them that sytt on them and the
flesshe of all free men and bond men and of small and gret.
19 And I sawe the beste and the kynges of the erth and their warriers gaddred
to gedder to make battayle agaynste him that satt on the horsse and agaynst
his sowdiers.
20 And the beste was take and with him that falce prophett that wrought myracles
before him with which he desceaved the that receaved ye beestes marke and them
that worshipped his ymage. These both were cast into a pode of fyre burnyge
with brymstone:
21 and ye remnaunte were slayne with ye swearde of him that sat apon the horsse
which swearde proceded out of his mouthe and all the foules were fulfilled with
their flesshe.
Chapter 20
1 And I sawe an angell come doune from heven havinge the kaye of the bottomlesse
pyt and a gret chayne in his honde.
2 And he toke the drago that olde serpet which is the devyll and Satanas and
he bounde him a thousand yeares:
3 and cast him into the bottomlesse pit and he bounde him and set a seale on
him yt he shuld desceaue the people no moare tyll the .M. yeares were fulfilled.
And after yt he muste be loosed for a litell season.
4 And I sawe seattes and they sat apon them and iudgement was geven vnto them:
and I sawe the soules of them that were behedded for the witnes of Iesu and
for the worde of God: which had not worshypped the best nether his ymage nether
had taken his marke vpon their forheddes or on their hondes: and they lyved
and raygned with Christ a .M. yere:
5 but the wother of the deed men lyved not agayne vntyll the .M. yere were fynisshed.
This is that fyrst resurreccion.
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath parte in the fyrst resurreccion. For on suche
shall the seconde deeth have no power for they shalbe the prestes of God and
of Christ and shall raygne with him a .M. yere.
7 And when the .M. yeares are experied Satan shalbe lowsed out of his preson
8 and shall goo oute to deceave the people which are in the foure quarters of
the erth Gog and Magog to gadder them to gedder to batayle whose nombre is as
the sonde of the see:
9 and they went vp on the playne of the erth and compased the tentes of the
saynctes about and the beloved cite. And fyre cam doune from God out of heven
and devoured them:
10 and the devyll that desceaved them was cast into a lake of fyre and brymstone
where the beest and the falce prophet were and shalbe tormented daye and nyght
for ever more.
11 And I sawe a grett whyte seate and him that sate on it from whose face fleed
awaye both the erth and heave and their place was no more founde.
12 And I sawe the deed both grett and small stonde before God: And the bokes
were opened and another boke was opened which is the boke of lyfe and the deed
were iudged of thoo thynges which weer wrytten in the bokes accordinge to their
dedes:
13 and the see gave vp her deed which were in her and deth and hell delyvered
vp the deed which were in them: and they were iudged every man accordinge to
his dedes.
14 And deth and hell were cast into the lake of fyre. This is that second deeth.
15 And whosoever was not founde written in the boke of lyfe was cast into the
lake of fyre.
Chapter 21
1 And I sawe a newe heven and a newe erth For the fyrst heven and the fyrst
erth were vanysshed awaye and there was no more see.
2 And I Iho sawe that holy cite newe Ierusalem come doune from God oute of heven
prepared as a bryde garnysshed for hyr husband.
3 And I herde a grett voyce out of heaven sayinge: beholde the tabernacle of
God is with men and he will dwell with the And they shalbe his people and God
him sylffe shalbe with the and be their god.
4 And God shall wype awaye all teares fro their eyes. And there shalbe nomore
deeth nether sorowe nether cryinge nether shall there be eny more payne for
the olde thynges are gone.
5 And he that sate apon the seate sayde: Behold I make all thynges newe. And
he sayde vnto me: wryte for these wordes are faythfull and true.
6 And he sayde vnto me: it is done I am Alpha and Omega the begynnynge and the
ende. I will geve to him yt is a thyrst of the well of the water of lyfe fre.
7 He that overcometh shall inheret all thynges and I will be his God and he
shalbe my sonne.
8 But the fearefull and vnbelevynge and the abhominable and murdrers and whormongers
and sorcerers and ydolaters and all lyars shall have their parte in the lake
which burnyth with fyre and brymstone which is the seconde deth.
9 And there cam vnto me one of the vii. angels which had the vii. vyals full
of the vii. laste plages: and talked with me sayinge: come hydder I will shewe
the the bryde the lambes wyfe.
10 And he caryed me awaye in the sprete to a grett and an hye mountayne and
he shewed me the grett cite holy Ierusalem descendinge out of heven fro God
11 havynge the brightnes of God. And her shynynge was lyke vnto a stone moste
precious even a Iaspar cleare as cristall:
12 and had walles grett and hye and had xii gates and at the gates xii. angels:
and names written which are the xii. trybes of Israell:
13 on the est parte iii gatis and on the north syde iii gates and to wardes
the south iii gates and from the west iii gates:
14 and the wall of the cite had xii foundacions and in them the names of the
lambes .xii. Apostles.
15 And he that talked with me had a golden read to measure the cite with all
and the gates therof and the wall therof.
16 And the cite was bylt iiii. square and the length was as large as the bredth
of it and he measured the cite with the rede .xii M. fur longes: and the lenght
and the bredth and ye heyth of it were equall.
17 And he measured the wall therof. an cxliiii. cubittes: the measure that ye
angell had was after the measure that man vseth.
18 And the byldinge of the wall of it was of iaspar. And the cite was pure gold
lyke vnto cleare glasse
19 and the foundacions of the wall of ye cite was garnisshed with all maner
of precious stones The fyrste foundacion was iaspar the seconde saphyre the
thyrde a calcedony the fourth an emeralde:
20 the fyft sardonix: the sixt sardeos: the seventh crysolite the ayght berall:
the nynth a topas: the tenth a crysoprasos: the eleventh a iacyncte: the twelfe
an amatist.
21 The xii. gates were xii pearles every gate was of one pearle and the strete
of the cite was pure golde as thorowe shynynge glasse.
22 And there was no temple therin. For the lord god allmyghty and the lambe
are the temple of it
23 and the cite hath no nede of the sonne nether of the mone to lyghten it.
For the bryghtnes of God dyd light it: and the lambe was the light of it.
24 And the people which are saved shall walke in the light of it: and the kynges
of the erth shall brynge their glory vnto it.
25 And ye gates of it are not shut by daye. For there shalbe no nyght there.
26 And there shall entre into it none vnclene thynge: nether what soever worketh
abhominacion: or maketh lyes: but they only which are wrytten in the lambes
boke of lyfe.
Chapter 22
1 And he shewed me a pure ryver of water of lyfe clere as cristall: procedynge
oute of the seate of God and of the lambe.
2 In the myddes of the strete of it and of ether syde of ye ryver was there
wode of lyfe: which bare xii maner of frutes: and gave frute every moneth: and
the leves of the wodde served to heale the people with all.
3 And there shalbe no more cursse but the seate of god and the lambe shalbe
in it: and his servauntes shall serve him:
4 And shall se his face and his name shalbe in their forheddes.
5 And there shall be no nyght there and they nede no candle nether light of
the sunne: for the lorde God geveth them light and they shall raygne for evermore.
6 And he sayde vnto me: these sayinges are faythfull and true. And the lorde
god of saynctes and prophetes sent his angell to shewe vnto his servauntes the
thynges which muste shortly be fulfylled.
7 Beholde I come shortly. Happy is he that kepeth the sayinge of ye prophesy
of this boke.
8 I am Ihon which sawe these thynges and herde them. And when I had herde and
sene I fell doune to worshippe before the fete of the angell which shewed me
these thynges.
9 And he sayd vnto me: se thou do it not for I am thy feloweservaunt and the
feloweservaunt of thy brethren the prophettes and of them which kepe the sayinges
of this boke. But worshippe God.
10 And he sayde vnto me: seale not the sayinges of prophesy of this boke. For
the tyme is at honde.
11 He that doeth evyl let him do evyl still: and he which is fylthy let him
be fylthy still: and he that is righteous let him be more righteous: and he
that is holy let him be more holy.
12 And beholde I come shortly and my rewarde with me to geve every man accordinge
as his dedes shalbe.
13 I am Alpha and Omega the begynninge and the ende: the fyrst and the last.
14 Blessed are they that do hys commaundmentes that their power maye be in the
tree of lyfe and maye entre in thorow the gates into the cite.
15 For without shalbe dogges and inchauters and whormongers and mortherers and
ydolaters and whosoever loveth or makith lesynges.
16 I Iesus sent myne angell to testyfye vnto you these thynges in the congregacions.
I am the rote and the generacion of David and the bright mornynge starre.
17 And the sprete and the bryde sayde come. And let him that heareth saye also
come. And let him that is athyrst come. And let whosoever wyll take of the water
of lyfe fre.
18 I testifye vnto every man that heareth the wordes of prophesy of thys boke.
yf eny man shall adde vnto these thynges god shall adde vnto him the plages
that are wrytten in this boke.
19 And yf eny man shall mynyshe of the wordes of ye boke of this prophesy god
shall take a waye his parte out of the boke of lyfe and oute of ye holy citie
and fro thoo thynge which are written in this boke.
20 He which testifyeth these thinges sayth: be it I come quyckly Amen. Even
soo: come lorde Iesu.
21 The grace of oure lorde Iesu Christ be with you all. Amen.