and one of the elders *said to me, “Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals.”

The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed

book, which when they give it to the one who is literate, saying, “Please read this,” he will say, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”

Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place;

As for the former events, declare what they were,
That we may consider them and know their outcome.
Or announce to us what is coming;