1    ^noteAnd I looked, & behold ^note a L&abar;be stoode vpon mount Sion, and vvith him an hundred fourtie foure thousand hauing his name, and the name of his Father vvritten in their foreheads.

2   And I heard a voice from heauen, as the voice of many vvaters, and as the voice of great thunder: and the voice vvhich I heard, as of harpers harping on their harpes.

3   And they sang as it vvere a nevv song before the seate and before the foure beastes, and the seniors, and no

man could ^note say the song, but those hundred fourtie foure thousand, that vvere bought from the earth.

4   These are they vvhich were not desiled vvith vvomen. For they are ^note virgins. These folovv the Lambe vvhithersoeuer he shal goe. These vvere bought from among men, ^note the first fruites to God and the Lambe:

5   and in their mouth there vvas found no lie. for they are vvithout spot before the throne of God. &cross4;

6   And I savv an other Angel flying through the middes of heauen, hauing the eternal Gospel, to eu&abar;gelize vnto them that sit vpon the earth, and vpon euery nation, and tribe, & t&obar;ge, & people:

7   saying vvith a loud voice, Feare our Lord, and giue him honour, because the houre of his iudgement is come: and adore ye him ^note that made heauen and earth, the sea and al things that are in them, and the fountaines of vvaters.

8   And an other Angel folovved, saying, ^note Fallen fallen is that great ^note Babylon, vvhich of the vvine of the vvrath of her fornication made al nations to drinke.

9   And the third Angel folovved them, saying vvith a loud voice, If any man adore the beast and his image, and receiue the character in his forehead, or in his hand:

10    ^notehe also shal drinke of the vvine of the vvrath of God, vvhich is mingled vvith pure vvine in the cuppe of his vvrath, and shal be tormented vvith fire & brimstone in the sight of the holy Angels and before the sight of the Lambe.

11   and the smoke of their tormentes shal ascend for euer & euer: neither haue they rest day and night, vvhich haue adored the beast, and his image, and if any man take the character of his name.

12   Here is the patience of sainctes, vvhich ^note keepe the commaundementes of God and the faith of Iesvs.

13    ^noteAnd I heard a voice from heauen, saying to me, Vvrite, Blessed are the dead which die in our Lord.09Q1545 from hence forth novv, saith the Spirit, that they rest from their labours. for their vvorkes folow them.

14   And I savv, and behold a vvhite cloude: and vpon the cloude one sitting like to the Sonne of man, hauing on his head a crovvne of gold, and in his hand a sharpe sickle.

15   And an other Angel came forth from the temple, crying vvith a loud voice to him that sate vpon the cloude, ^note Thrust in thy sickle, and reape, because the houre is come to reape,

for the haruest of the earth is drie.

16   And he that sate vpon the cloude, thrust his sickle into the earth, and the earth vvas reaped.

17   And an other Angel came forth from the temple vvhich is in heau&ebar;, him self also hauing a sharpe sickle.

18   And an other Angel came forth from the altar, vvhich had povver ouer the fite: and he cried vvith a loud voice to him that had the sharpe sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharpe sickle, and gather the clusters of the vineyard of the earth: because the grapes thereof be ripe.

19   And the Angel thrust his sharpe sickle into the earth, and gathered the vineyard of the earth, & cast it into the great ^note presse of the vvrath of God:

20   and the presse vvas troden vvithout the citie, and bloud came forth out of the presse, vp to the horse bridles, for a thousand sixe hundred furlongs.

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