beginning and the end. [1] He now gives to His faithful the waters of eternal life, the life of union with Him in the Beatific Vision.
7, 8. Eternal happiness is for those alone who over come in the conflict with temptation and sin. All others shall suffer the eternal torments of hell which is the second death.
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9. And there came one of the seven angels, who had the vials full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying: Come, and I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.
10. And he took me in spirit to a great and high mountain: and he shewed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.
11. Having the glory of God, and the light thereof was like to a precious stone, as to the jasper stone, even as crystal.
12. And it had a wall, great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
13. On the east, three gates; and on the north, three gates; and on the south, three gates; and on the west, three gates.
- ↑ See above, page 6.
