¶ The temple is measured. The seconde wo io past.
CAPI. XI.
ANd then was giuen me a rede, lyke vn¦to [unspec A] a rodde, and it was sayde vnto me. Ryse & meate the tēple of god, & the aulter & them that worshyp therin, & the queer why∣che is within the temple, cast out & meate it not for it is gyuen vnto the Gentyles, & the holy cytie shall they treade vnder fote. xli••. monethes. And I wyl gyue power vnto my two wytnesses, & they shall prophesy a thou∣sande, two hundreth and. lx. dayes, clothed in sacke clothe. These are two olyue trees, & two candelstyckes, standyng before the god of the earth.
And yf any man wyl hurt them, fyre shall [unspec B] procede out of their mouthes, and consume their enemyes. And yf any man wyll hurte them, this wyse must he be kylled. These ha¦ue power to shut heauen, that it raine not in the dayes of their prophesying: and haue po¦wer ouer waters to turne them to bloude, & to smyte the earth with al maner plages, as often as they wyll.
And when they haue fynyshed their testi∣mony, [unspec C] the beast that came out of the bottom lesse pyt, shall make warre agaynste them, & shall ouercome the, and kyl them. And their bodyes shall lye in the stretes of the greate cytie, whiche spiritually is called Zodom & Egypte, where our Lorde was crucyfied. And they of the people and kynredes, & ton¦ges, and they of the naciōs, shall se their bo∣dies. iij. dayes and an halfe, & shal not suffre their bodies to be put in graues. And they that dwel vpon the earth, shall reioyce ouer them, & be glad, and shal sende gyftes one to another, for these two prophetes vexed them that dwelt on the earth.
And after. iii. dayes & an halfe, the spirit [unspec D] of lyfe from God, entred into thē. And they stode vp vpon their fete, & great feare came vpon them which saw them. And they herde a great voyce from heauen, saying vnto thē Come vp hyther. And they ascended vp into heauen in a cloude, and their enemyes sawe them. And the same hour was there a great earthquake, & the tenth part of the cytie fell, and in the earth quake were slaine names of men seuen. M. and the remnaunt were fea∣red, and gaue glory to God of heauen. The seconde wo is past, & beholde, the thyrde wo wyll come anone.
And the seuenth angel blewe, & there were made greate voyces in heauen, sayinge: the kyngdomes of this worlde are our Lordes, & his Christes, & he shal raigne for euermore And the. xxiiij. elders, which syt before God on their seates, fell vpon their faces, & wor∣shypped God, sayinge: we gyue the thankes O Lorde God almightye: which art & wast, and arte to come, for thou hast receyued thy great myght, and hast raygned. And the na∣cions were angrye, and thy wrath is come, and the tyme of the dead that they shulde be iudged and that thou shuldest gyue reward vnto thy seruauntes the Prophetes and Saynctes, and to them that feare thy name small and great and shuldest destroy them, whiche destroy the earth. And the temple of God was opened in heauen, and there was sene in his temple, the arcke of his testamēt, and ther folowed lyghtnynges, and voices, and thondrynges and earthquake, and mu∣che hayle.