"The hired servant, since he is not a shepherd and does not own his sheep, leaves the sheep and flees when he sees a wolf coming??nd the wolf worries them and scatters them.

"And now, I say to you, hold aloof from these men. Let them alone; for if this scheme or work be of human origin it will come to nothing;

Hold aloof from every form of evil.

"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

He also said: "It has now come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, The Beginning and the End. To him who thirsts I will freely give Of the spring of the Water of life.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, The First and the Last, The Beginning and the End.