I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to apply to your eyes so that you may see.

and he decrees that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.

“And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo any more—