"We have been hard at work all night, Sir," answered Simon, "and have not caught anything, but, at your bidding, I will throw out the nets."

The smoke from their torture rises for ever and ever, and they have no rest day nor night-- those who worship the Beast and its image, and all who are branded with its name.'

But God said to the man 'Fool! This very night your life is being demanded; and as for all you have prepared--who will have it?'

Whether it is late at night, or in the early morning that he comes, if he finds all as it should be, then happy are they.

Then Jesus said to them: "Even you will all fall away from me to-night. Scripture says--'I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

For you all are 'Sons of Light' and 'Sons of the Day.' We have nothing to do with night, or darkness.

These four Creatures have each of them six wings, and all round, and within, they are full of eyes; and day and night they never cease to say-- 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord, our God, the Almighty, who was, and who is, and who shall be.'

It is at night that men sleep, and at night that drunkards get drunk.