and from Jesus Christ, {\i who is} the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;
how that the Christ must suffer, {\i and} how that he first by the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles.\par
And he said unto me, They are come to pass. I {\i am} the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said,\par\tab The kingdom of the world is become {\i the kingdom} of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;
unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, {\i I say},
And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write:\par\tab These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:
That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life
and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God.\par