Biblia the Byble, that is, the holy Scrypture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully translated in to Englyshe.

The VIII. Chapter.

ANd when he had opened the seuenth seale, there was silēce in heauen abou¦te the space of halfe an houre. And I

shal reigne for eurmore. And the foure and twentye Elders, which sat before God on their seatts, fell vpon their faces, and wor∣shipped God sayenge: we geue the thankes LORDE God allmyghte: which art and wast, and art to come, for thou hast recea∣ued thy greate might, and hast raygned. And the Heythen were angry, & thy wrath is come, and the tyme of the deed that they shulde be iudged, and that thou shuldest ge¦ue rewarde vnto thy seruaūtes the prophet∣tes and saynctes, and to thē that feare thy name, small & greate: and shuldest destroye them which destroye the earth. And the tem¦ple of God was opened in heauen, and there [ B] was sene in his temple the arcke of his testa¦ment: and there folowed lightnynges, and voyces, and thondrynges and earth quake, and a greate hayle.

And there appeared a greate token in heauen. A woman clothed with the Son¦ne, and the mone vnder her fete, and vpon her deed a crowne of twolue starres. And she was with childe, and cryed trauaillin∣ge in byrth, and payned redy to be delyue¦red. And there appeared another token in heauen, and beholde a greate reed dragon, hauinge seuen heades, and ten hornes and seuē crownes vpō his heades: and his tayle drue the thyrde parte of the starres, and cast them to the earth.

And the dragon stode before the womā, which was ready to be delyuered: for to de∣voure [ C] her childe as sone as it were borne. And she brought forth a man childe, which shulde rule all nacions with a rod of yron. And her sonne was taken vp vnto God, and to his seate. And the woman fled in to wyldernes, where she had a place prepared off God, that they shulde fede her there a M.ij.C. and lx. dayes.

And there was a greate batayll in heauē Michael and his angels foughte with the dragon, and the dragon fought and his an∣gels, and preuayled not, nether was their place founde eny more in heauen. And the greate dragon that olde serpent (called the deuell and Sathanas) was cast out. Which disceaued all the worlde. And he was cast in to the earth, and his angelles were cast out with him also.

And I harde a lowde voyce, which sayde in heauen: Now is saluacion, and strength and the kyngdome become oure Gods, and y^e power his Christes: For he is cast downe, which accused them before God daye and night. And they ouercame him by the blou∣de of the lambe, and by the worde of their testimony, and they loued not their lyues vn¦to [ D] the deeth. Therfore reioyce ye heauens, and ye that dwell in them. Wo to the inha∣biters of the earth, and of the see: for the de∣uell is come downe vnto you, which hath greate wrath, because he knoweth, that he hath but a short tyme.

And when the dragon sawe, that he was cast vnto the earth, he persecuted the wo∣man, which brought forth the man childe. And to the woman were geuē two wynges of a greate egle that she might flye in to the wyldernes, in to her place, where she is noryszhed for a tyme, two tymes, and halffe a tyme, from the presence of the serpēt. And the dragon cast out of his mouth water after the womā, as it had bene a ryuer, that he might cause her to be caught of y^e floud. And the earth holpe the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swalowed vp the ryuer which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the womā: and went and made warre with the remnaunt of hyr sede, which kepe the cō∣maundementes of God, and haue the testi∣mony of Iesus Christ. And I stode on the see sonde.

Notes

• 〈…〉〈…〉 12. d 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••1. f
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• Apoc. 12
• Dan. 7. b