asking, "Where is the newly-born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose, and we have come to worship him."

Then Herod summoned the magicians in secret and ascertained from them the time of the star's appearance.

The magicians listened to the king and then went their way. And the star they had seen rise went in front of them till it stopped over the place where the child was.

When they caught sight of the star, they were intensely glad;

His winnowing-fan is in his hand, he will clean out his threshing-floor, his wheat he will gather into the granary, but the straw he will burn with fire unquenchable."

Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal:

store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrode, where thieves do not break in and steal.

The good man brings good out of his good store, and the evil man brings evil out of his store of evil.

They make up heavy loads and lay them on men's shoulders, but they will not stir a finger to remove them.

His winnowing-fan is in his hand to purge his threshing-floor, to gather the wheat into his granary and burn the straw with fire unquenchable."

So he debated, 'What am I to do? I have no room to store my crops.'

And he said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my granaries and build larger ones, where I can store all my produce and my goods.

But when Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? Why do you stare at us, as if we had made him walk by any power or piety of ours?

No, it was the tent of Moloch and the star-symbol of Rephan your god that you carried, figures that you manufactured for worship. So now I will transport you beyond Babylon!

In the window sat a young man called Eutychus, and as Paul's address went on and on, he got overcome with drowsiness, went fast asleep, and fell from the third storey. He was picked up a corpse,

Brothers, I beg of you to keep your eye on those who stir up dissensions and put hindrances in your way, contrary to the doctrine which you have been taught. Avoid them.

On that foundation anyone may build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

There is a splendour of the sun and a splendour of the moon and a splendour of the stars ??for one star differs from another in splendour.

Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds ??25 not ceasing to meet together, as is the habit of some, but admonishing one another, all the more so, as you see the Day coming near.

God had something better in store for us; he would not have them perfected apart from us.

so long as I am in this tent, I deem it proper to stir you up by way of reminder,

if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorra to ashes when he sentenced them to devastation, and thus gave the impious an example of what was in store for them,

also I will grant him to see the Morning-star.'

The third angel blew, and a huge star blazing like a torch dropped out of the sky, dropped on a third of the rivers and on the fountains

(the name of the star is Wormwood); a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died of the waters, because they had turned bitter.

The fifth angel blew, and I saw a Star which had dropped from heaven to earth; he was given the key of the pit of the abyss,

But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshipping daemons and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which cannot either see or hear or stir;

"I Jesus have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches; I am the Scion and offspring of David, the bright star of the morning.