And another angel came out of the temple, shouting aloud to him who sat upon the cloud, "Thrust your sickle in and reap, the time has come to reap, the harvest of earth is ripe and ready."

and another angel came from the altar ??he who has power over fire ??and called loudly to the one who had the sharp sickle, "Thrust your sharp sickle in, cull the clusters from the Vine of earth, for its grapes are fully ripe."

& 23] Vanished the ripe fruit of thy soul's desire! Perished thy luxury and splendour! Never again to be seen.

What if God, though desirous to display his anger and show his might, has tolerated most patiently the objects of his anger, ripe and ready to be destroyed?

Many who are first shall be last, and many who are last shall be first.

So shall the last be first and the first last."

(a) Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala out of whom he had cast seven daemons.

Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

Many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first."

He exerts the full authority of the first Beast in his presence, causing the earth and its inhabitants to worship the first Beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

Then I saw the new heaven and the new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; and the sea is no more.

Now there were seven brothers. The first married a wife and died leaving no offspring:

Now when evening came the master of the vineyard said to his bailiff, 'Summon the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and going on to the first.'

So when the first labourers came up, they supposed they would get more; but they too got each their shilling.

and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave;

On the first day of unleavened bread (the day when the paschal lamb was sacrificed) his disciples said to him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the passover?"

and very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, after sunrise.

Tell me what you think. A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard to-day';

Once more he sent some other servants, more than he had sent at first, and they did the same to them.

Now there were seven brothers in our number. The first married and died; as he had no children he left his wife to his brother.