^{10 Ref} I was in the Spirit on the Lord's-day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,

^{11 Ref} `I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, `What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that `are' in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'