k John 14. 17. & 15. 26. & 16. 13. 1 Tim. 3. 16.

1 John 1. 1. Rev. 19. 13. m John 10.30.

II. JOHN.

THE SECOND EPISTLE

OF

JOHN.

a 1 John 3. 18. ver. 3.

2 John 1.

b John 8. 32. Gal. 2, 5, 14. & 3. 1. & 5. 7. Col. 1. 5. 2 Thess. 2.

13. 1 Tim. 2.

4. Heb. 10.

The apostle's salutation to the elect lady and her chil- | have received a commandment from

+ Gr. shall be. 3 Grace + be with you, mercy, and heard from the beginning, ye should

THE GENERAL EPISTLE

A. D. about 66.

a Luke 6. 16. Acts 1. 13.

OF

JUDE.

The apostle's salutation. 3 He exhorteth to contend
earnestly for the faith. 4 False teachers among
them. 5 Their punishment certain. 8 Their char-
acter described. 17 Such mockers were foretold. 20
An exhortation to adhere to the truth, 22 and to save
others.

reward, and perished in the gainsay-
ing of Korah.

е

JUDE, of Jesus Christ, are water, fear

UDE, the servant of Jesus Christ, and a brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, b John 17. 11, and b and preserved in Jesus Christ, and c called:

12, 15. 1 Pet. 1. 5.

c Rom. 1. 7. d 1 Pet. 1. 2. 2 Pet. 1. 2.

e Tit. 1. 4.

f Phil. 1. 27.
1 Tim. 1. 18.
& 6. 12.

2 Tim. 1. 13.
& 4. 7.

g Gal. 2. 4.
2 Pet. 2, 1.
h Rom. 9. 21,
22. 1 Pet. 2.
8.

i 2 Pet. 2. 10.
k Tit. 2. 11.
Heb. 12. 15.

I Tit. 1. 16.

2 Pet. 2. 1.

1 John 2. 22.

2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that fye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

i

h

k

4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and ' denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

g

12 d These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, & carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, h plucked up by the roots;

13 i Raging waves of the sea, * foam-i Is. 57. 20. ing out their own shame; wandering|k Phil. 3. 19. stars, to whom is reserved the black- 12 Pet. 2. 17. ness of darkness for ever.

14 And Enoch also, m the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints,

n

m Gen. 5. 18.

n Deut. 33. 2. Dan. 7. 10. Zech. 14. 5. Matt. 25. 31. 2 Thess. 1.7. Rev. 1. 7.

o 1 Sam. 2. 3. Ps. 31. 18. & 94. 4. Mal.

15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; 5 I will therefore put you in remem- and Ptheir mouth speaketh great swell-p 2 Pet. 2. 18. brance, though ye once knew this, howing words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

| about the body of Moses, durst not 23 And others a save with fear, 'pull-
bring against him a railing accusa-ing them out of the fire; hating even
tion, but said, ' The Lord rebuke thee.
10 2 But these speak evil of those
things which they know not: but
what they know naturally, as brute
beasts, in those things they corrupt
themselves.

a

b

the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 d Now unto him that is able to
keep you from falling, and to present
you faultless before the presence of his
glory with exceeding joy,

25 To the only wise God our
Saviour, be glory and majesty, do-
minion and power, both now and

11 Woe unto them! for they have 21. 2 Pet. 2. gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam forever.

15.

Amen.

Ez. 14. 7. Hos. 4. 14. & 9. 10. Heb. 10.25.

+

u 1 Cor. 2. 14.
James 3. 15.

x Col. 2. 7.
1 Tim. 1. 4.
y Rom. 8. 26.
Eph. 6. 18.

z Tit. 2. 13.
2 Pet. 3. 12.

a Rom. 11. 14.
1 Tim. 4. 16.

b Am. 4. 11.
Zech. 3. 2.
1 Cor. 3. 15.
c Zech. 3. 4, 5.
Rev. 3. 4.

d Rom. 16. 25.
Eph. 3. 20.
e Col. 1. 22.
f Rom. 16. 27.
1 Tim. 1. 17.
& 2, 3.

THE REVELATION

OF

ST. JOHN THE DIVINE.

2 d Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he that readeth, and 8 Rom. 13. 11. they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

James 5. 8.

1 Pet. 4. 7. ch. 22. 10. h Ex. 3. 14.

i John 1. 1.

k Zech. 3. 9. ch. 3. 1. & 4. 5. & 5. 6.

1 John 8. 14.

4

JOH

i

h

f the first and the last: and, What thou
seest, write in a book, and send it unto
the seven churches which are in Asia;
unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and
unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira,
and unto Sardis, and unto Philadel-
phia, and unto Laodicea.

12 And I turned to see the voice that
spake with me. And being turned,
I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13 h And in the midst of the seven
candlesticks one like unto the Son
of man, clothed with a garment down
to the foot, and girt about the paps
with a golden girdle.

n

k

14 His head and mhis hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 ° And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and Phis voice as the sound of many waters.

OHN to the seven churches to seven which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to 16 And he had in his right hand come; and from the seven spirits seven stars: and 'out of his mouth 20. Col. 1. 18. which are before his throne; went a sharp twoedged sword 5 And from Jesus Christ, 1who is the his countenance was as the sun shifaithful witness, and the m firstbegot-neth in his strength.

1 Tim. 6. 13. ch. 3. 14.

m 1 Cor. 15.

n Eph. 1. 20. ch. 17. 14.

o John 13. 34.

& 15. 9. Gal. ten of the dead, and "the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our q 1 Pet. 2. 5,9. sins in his own blood,

p Heb. 9. 14. 1 John 1. 7.

ch. 5. 10.

r 1 Tim. 6. 16. Heb. 13. 21.

1 Pet. 4. 11. & 5. 11.

■ Dan. 7. 13. Matt. 24. 30. & 26. 64. Acts 1. 11.

6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; "to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and

:

t Zech. 12. 10. t they also which pierced him and
all kindreds of the earth shall wail
because of him. Even so, Amen.
8 "I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the ending, saith the
Lord, which is, and which was, and
y Phil. 1. 7. & which is to come, the Almighty.
4. 14. 2 Tim.
9 I John, who also am your brother,
1. 8.
and companion in tribulation, and
2 Tim. 2. 12. in the kingdom and patience of Jesus
Christ, was in the isle that is called
Patmos, a for the word of God, and
ch.4.2.& 17. for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

t

X

S

Dan. 7. 13. &
10. 16. ch. 14.
14.

k Dan. 10. 5.
1 ch. 15. 6.
m Dan. 7. 9.
n Dan. 10. 6.
ch. 2. 18. &
19. 12.

o Ez. 1. 7.
Dan. 10. 6.
ch. 2. 18.
p Ez. 43. 2.
Dan. 10. 6.
ch. 14. 2. &
19. 6.

and 9 ver. 20.

ch. 2. 1. & 3. 1.

r Is. 49. 2. Eph. 6. 17. Heb. 4. 12. ch. 2. 12, 16. & 19. 15, 21.

s Acts 26. 13. ch. 10. 1.

17 And when I saw him, I fell at And "he laid his his feet as dead. right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last : 18 y I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, 2I am alive for evermore, Amen; and a have the keys Is. 41. 4. & of hell and of death.

t Ez. 1. 28.
u Dan. 8. 18.
& 10. 10.

44. 6. & 48. 12. ch. 2. 8. & 22. 13. ver. 11.

y Roin. 6. 9. z ch. 4. 9. & 5. 14.

a Ps. 68. 20. ch, 20. 1.

c ch. 2. 1, &c.
d ch. 4. 1, &c.
e ver. 16.
f ver. 12.

20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, b ver. 12, &c. fand the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and h the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the 8 Mal. 2. 7. seven churches.

CHAPTER II. ·

Christ's message to the angel of the church in Ephe-
sus, 8 in Smyrna, 12 in Pergamos, 18 and in Thya-
tira.

angel of the church

10 I was in the Spirit on the UNTEphesus write; These things

Lord's day, and heard behind me da
great voice, as of a trumpet,

e

of

ch. 2. 1. &c. h Zech. 4. 2. Matt. 5. 15. Phil. 2. 15.

saith he that holdeth the seven stars a ch. 1. 16, 20. b ch. 1. 13.

b

11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, in his right hand, who walketh in

The church in Smyrna.

A. D. 96.

c Ps. 1. 6.
ver. 9, 13, 19.

the midst of the seven golden candle- | rael, to eat things sacrificed unto A. D. 96.
sticks;
d
idols, and to commit fornication.

2 I know thy works, and thy lach. 3. 1,8, 15. bour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil and a thou hast tried theme which say e 2 Cor. 11. 13. they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

d 1 John 4. 1.

2 Pet. 2. 1.

f Gal. 6. 9. Heb. 12. 3, 5.

3 And hast borne, and hast patience,
and for my name's sake hast
ed, and hast f not fainted.
4 Nevertheless I have somewhat
against thee, because thou hast left
thy first love.

g

15 So hast thou also them that holde ver. 20. the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

f

16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Acts 15, 29. 1 Cor. 8. 9, 10. & 10. 19, 20.

d 1 Cor. 6. 13,
&C.

e ver. 6.
f Is. 11. 4.
2 Thess. 2. 8.
ch. 1. 16. &
19. 15, 21.

17 He that hath an ear, let him labour-hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcomethg ver. 7, 11. will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone h a new name written,h ch. 3. 12. & which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the g Matt. 21. 41, first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

43.

6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of1 the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

k

8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith m the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;

9 "I know thy works, and tribulation, o Luke 12. 21. and poverty, but thou art rich; and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

p Rom. 2. 17, 28, 29. & 9. 6. q ch. 3. 9.

r Matt. 10. 22.

r

q

10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall 8 Matt. 24. 13. have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

t James 1. 12. ch. 3. 11.

u ver. 7. ch. 13. 9.

t

11 "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall x ch. 20. 14. & not be hurt of the second death. 12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith y he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;

21. 8.

y ch. 1. 16.

18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;

k

19. 12.

i ch. 1. 14, 15.

19 I know thy works, and charity, k ver. 2. and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.

20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which 11 Kings 16. calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

n

m

21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

31. & 21. 25. 2 Kings 9. 7. m Ex. 34. 15. Acts 15. 20, 29. 1 Cor. 10. 19, 20. ver. 14.

n Rom. 2. 4. ch. 9. 20.

o 1 Sam. 16. 7.
1 Chr. 28. 9.
& 29. 17.
2 Chr. 6. 30.
Ps. 7. 9.
Jer. 11. 20. &
17. 10. & 20.
12. John 2.
21, 25. Acts
1.24. Rom.
8. 27.

24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they p Ps. 62. 12. speak; I will put upon you none other burden.

q

25 But that which ye have already, hold fast till I come.

Matt. 16. 27. Rom. 2. 6. & 14. 12. 2 Cor. 5. 10. Gal. 6. 5. ch. 20. 12.

13 I know thy works, and where
thou dwellest, even a where Satan's
seat is and thou holdest fast my
name, and hast not denied my faith,
even in those days wherein Antipas 27 " And he shall rule them with a
was my faithful martyr, who was rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter
slain among you, where Satan dwell-shall they be broken to shivers : even
as I received of my Father.

26 And he that overcometh, and
keepeth my works unto the end, to John 6. 29.
him will I give power over the na-
tions:

eth.

14 But I have a few things against 28 And I will give him the morning
thee, because thou hast there them star.

29 He that hath an ear, let him who taught Balak to cast a stum- hear what the Spirit saith unto the blingblock before the children of Is- | churches.

t Matt. 19. 28. Luke 22. 29, 30. 1 Cor. 6. 3. ch. 3. 21. & 20. 4.

u Ps. 2. 8, 9. & 49. 14. Dan. 7. 22. ch. 12. 5. & 19. 15.

x 2 Pet. 1. 19. ch. 22. 16.

y ver. 7.