The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

¶ The .ix. Chapter.

* 1.1

ANd the fyfte angell blewe / and I sawe [ A] a stare fall from heven vnto the erth. And to him was geven the kaye of the bottomlesse pytt. And he opened the botomles¦se pytt / and there arose the smoke of a grett for¦nace. And the sunne / and the ayer were dark∣ned by the reason of the smoke of the pytt. And there cam out of the smoke locustes vpō the erth: and vnto them was gevē power as the scorpions of the erth have power. And it

[illustration]

The. viii fygure.

hurt y^e grasse of the erth: nether eny grene thin¦ge: nether eny tree: but only those mē which have not y^e feale in their forhede / & to thē was cōmaunded y^• they shulde not kyll thē / but y^•* 1.2 they shulde be vexed v monethes / & their pay¦ne was as the payne y^• cōmeth of a scorpion / whē he hath stōge a mā. And in those dayes shall men seke deeth / & shall not fynde it / and

shall desyre to dye / & deeth shall flye frō thē.

And the similitude of the locustes was ly∣ke [ B] vnto horses prepared vnto battayll / and on their heddes were as it were crownes / lyke vn¦to golde: and their faces were as it had bene¦the faces of men. And they had heare as the heare of wemen. And their tethe were as the tethe of lyons. And they had habbergions / as it were habbergions of yron. And the soun¦de of their wynges / was as the sounde of cha¦rettes when many horsses runne to gedder to battayle. And they had tayles lyke vnto scor∣pions / and there were stinges in their tayles. And their power was to hurt men v. mone∣thes. And they had a kynge over them / which* 1.3 is the angell of the bottomlesse pytt / whose name in the hebrew tonge / is Abadon: but in the greke tonge / Apollion. One woo is past / and beholde two wooes come after this.

And the sixte. angell blewe / and I herd a [ C] voyce from the iiii. corners of the golden aul∣tre which is before god / saying to the s••yte an¦gell / which had the trompe: Loose the iiii. an∣gelles / which are bounde in the grett ryver Eufrates. And the iiii. angelles were loosed which wer prepared for an houre / for a daye / * 1.4 for a moneth / and for a yeare / for to slee the thyrde part of mē. And the nombre of horsmē of warre / were twenty tymes xM. And I her¦de the nōbre of them. And thus I sawe the horses in a vision & them y^t sate on thē havyn¦ge fyry habbergions of a Iacyncte coloure / & brymstony / and the heeddes of y^• horses werre

[illustration]

The .ix. fygure.

as the heeddes of lyons. And out of their mou¦thes went forth fyre and smoke / and brymsto¦ne. [ D] And of these iii. was the thyrde parte of men kylled: that is to saye / of fyre / smoke / and brymstone / which proceded out of the mou∣thes of them: For their power was in their mouthes and in their tayles: for their tayles were lyke vnto serpētes / and had heedes / and with them they dyd hurt: And the remnaunt

of the mē which were not kylled by these pla¦ges / repented not of the dedes of their hondes that they shulde not worshyppe devyls / and ymages of golde / and sylver / and brasse / and stone / and of wood / which nether can se / ne∣ther heare / nether goo. Also they repented not of their murther / and of their sorcery nether of their fornacion nether of their thefte.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The. viii fygure.
• * 1.2

  esai. ij. d. ezec. x. b. luc. xxiii sapi. xvj.
• * 1.3

  Abadon is as mo∣che to say¦e as a dest¦royer.
• * 1.4

  The .ix. fygure.