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:
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.