they are not, but do
lie. Lo! I will make them that they shall come and prostrate themselves
at thy feet, and they shall know that I have loved thee. (10)Because
thou hast keep the word of my patience, I also will preserve thee from
the hour of temptation, which is coming upon the whole habitable globe
to try the dwellers upon earth. (11)Behold, I come quickly: hold fast
that thou hast, that no man take thy crown. (12)He that overcometh, I
will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall never more
go out from thence: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and
the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down
out of heaven from my God, and my own new name. (13)He that hath an ear
to hear, let him ear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

(14)And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, These
things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin of the
creation of God; (15)I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor
hot: (16)I wish thou wert cold or hot. So because thou art lukewarm,
and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit thee out of my mouth:
(17)because thou sayest, I am rich, and wallow in wealth, and have no
want unsupplied; yet thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and
pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked. (18)I advise thee to buy of
me gold purified by the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white
robes, that thou mayest be completely clothed, and that the shame of
thy nakedness may not appear; and anoint thine eyes with a collyrium,
that thou mayest see. (19)As many as I love, I rebuke and correct: be
zealous then, and repent. (20)Lo! I stand at the door, and knock: if
any person hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and
I will sup with him, and he with me. (21)He that overcometh, I will
give to him to sit on my throne, as I also have overcome, and have sat
down with my Father on his throne. (22)He that hath an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

CHAP. IV.

AFTER these things I beheld, and, lo! a door was opened in heaven, and
a voice, the first which I heard, as of a trumpet, speaking to me,
said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee what things will be after
these. (2)And immediately I was _rapt_ in spirit: and, lo! a throne was
placed in heaven, and upon the throne a person sitting. (3)And he that
sat was in appearance like a stone of jasper and sardine: and a rainbow
encircled the throne, l