¹⁷ And when I had seen him, I felled down [I fell down] at his feet, as dead. And he putted his right hand on me, and said^[a], Do not thou dread; I am the first and the last;

¹⁸ and I am alive, and I was dead; and lo! I am living into worlds of worlds, and I have the keys of death and of hell.

¹⁹ Therefore write thou which things thou hast seen, and which be, and which it behooveth to be done after these things.