^{11 Ref} saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send `it' to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

^{12 Ref} And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And having turned I saw seven golden candlesticks;

^{13 Ref} and in the midst of the candlesticks one like unto a son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle.

^{14 Ref} And his head and his hair were white as white wool, `white' as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

^{15 Ref} and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.

^{16 Ref} And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

^{17 Ref} And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last,

^{18 Ref} and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.