“Having the Key of the Abyss, and a Great Chain upon his hand”.

“And I saw an angel descending from the heaven”.

1. And I saw an angel descending from the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain upon his hand.
2. And he laid hold of the Dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Satan, and he bound him a thousand years, 3.

“Isaw One Angel who had stood in the sun”.

“I saw the heaven opened, and behold a White Horse”.

“And the Hosts in the heaven followed him upon white horses, having been invested with fine linen white and pure”.

“Having a Name which had been written, which no one knew but he himself’.

“And I saw the heaven which had been opened”.

The principal figures in the scene before us are the King of kings, or Yahweh; the Hosts in the heaven; and the White Horses upon which they ride. All these represent a power engaged in a righteous war with the nations, which are at length smitten, or conquered, and governed by the victors. The central figure of the group is the Faithful and True One, with eyes as it were a flame of fire, and upon his head many diadems.

11. And I saw the heaven which had been opened, and behold a White Horse, and one sitting upon him, called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judgeth and makes war.
12. But his eyes are as it were a flame of fire; and upon his head many dia­dems: having a name which had been written, which no one knows but he him­self.
13. And he had been clothed with a garment