10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's-day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,
11. `I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, `What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that [are] in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'
12. And I did turn to see the voice that did speak with me, and having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands,
13. and in the midst of the seven lamp-stands, [one] like to a son of man, clothed to the foot, and girt round at the breast with a golden girdle,
14. and his head and hairs white, as if white wool--as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire;
15. and his feet like to fine brass, as in a furnace having been fired, and his voice as a sound of many waters,
16. and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his countenance [is] as the sun shining in its might.
17. And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,