The Gospel According to Matthew Volume 2

The apostle John - exiled on the Isle of Patmos, and writing in about 65 A.D., says this: “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and heard behind be a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, “I AM Alpha and Omega, the first and the last; and, What you see, write in a book, and send it unto the seven Churches which are in Asia; ... and I turned to see the voice that spake with me, And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks One like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and a girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and His hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire; and His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and His voice as the sound of many waters. And He had in His right hand seven stars; and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword; and His countenance was as the sun shining its strength.”