² the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God^[a] swept over the face of the waters.^(A)

¹⁴ His head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire;^{(A) 15} his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters.^{(B) 16} In his right hand he held seven stars, and from his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining with full force.^(C)

⁴ And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.”^(A)