...and priests unto God for ever." The " voice which once shook the earth" shall say, " Fear not ; I am the First and the Last : I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore ; and have the keys of hell and of death." ' Such, then, is...

...Christ, appearing in vision to John, expressly and repeatedly claimed to himself.3 " Fear not, I am the First and the Last : " I am he that liveth and was dead, and am alive " for evermore." How can any reasonable man suppose that Jesus, had he been no more...

...turning he saw « one like unto the Son of Man," who laid his hand upon him and said : " Fear not, I am the first and the last ; I am he that liveth and was dead.'' And in the second chapter Sth verse, the same person says : •* These things saith the first...

...him I fell at his feet as dead : and he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not, I am the First and the Last, I am he, that liveth and was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen. Revelation ii. 8, These things saith the First and...

...ending, saith the Lord ; which is, and which was, and which is to come; the Almighty. .Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he, that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, lam alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of Hades and of death 3. 1 Coloss....

...kings, and " Lord of lords ;" and in Rev. i. 17. he assumes to himself these characteristics : " I am the first and the last ; I am he " that liveth, and was dead ; and, behold, I " am alive for evermore. Amen : and have " the keys of hell and of death." "...

...him I fell at his feet as dead : and he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not, I am the first and the last, I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore. Ann MI.' Revelation ii. 9. ' These things saith the First...

...in Christ. The Son of Man was with him, and was whispering to his parting spirit, " Fear not ; I am the First and the Last : I am He that liveth, and was dead ; and, behold, I am alive for evermore." Reading to him of the Saviour's crucifixion, he lifted...

...not ashamed to own, when he appeared in a form of so much majesty to John. "Fear not," says he, "I am the first and the last; I am he that liveth, and was dead ; and behold I am alive for evermore;" Rev. i. 17, 18. The man that hung on Calvary, and lay dead...

...come, may employ for our own consolation, while we listen to his soulreviving words : " Fear not, I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth and was dead ; and, behold, I am alive for evermore ; Amen, and have the keys of death and of hell." I am,...