启示录
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第四章

天上的敬拜
1 这些事以后，我观看，见天上有一道门开着；并且有我第一次听见的那个好像号筒的声音，对我说：“你上这里来！我要把以后必定发生的事指示你。”
2 立刻，我在灵里，就看见有一个宝座，设立在天上，有一位坐在宝座上。
3 那位坐着的，看来好像碧玉和红宝石，又有彩虹围绕着宝座，看来好像绿宝石。
4 宝座的周围有二十四个座位，上面坐着二十四位长老，身穿白衣，头戴金冠。
5 有闪电、响声、雷轰从宝座中发出；又有七枝火炬在宝座前点着，这就是　神的七灵。
6 宝座前有一个看来好像水晶的玻璃海。在宝座中间和宝座周围有四个活物，前后布满了眼睛。
7 第一个活物像狮子，第二个活物像牛犊，第三个活物的脸面像人，第四个活物像飞鹰。
8 四个活物各有六个翅膀，里外布满了眼睛。他们昼夜不停地说：“圣哉！圣哉！圣哉！主、全能的　神，昔在、今在、以后永在的那一位。”
9 每逢四个活物把荣耀、尊贵、感谢献给那坐在宝座上，活到永永远远的那一位的时候，
10 二十四位长老就俯伏在坐在宝座上那一位的面前，敬拜那活到永永远远的，又把他们的冠冕放在宝座前，说：
11 “主、我们的　神，你是配得荣耀、尊贵、权能的，因为你创造了万有，万有都是因着你的旨意而存在，而被造的。”

1 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this."
2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.
3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne.
4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads.
5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.
6 Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.
7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.
8 Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come."
9 Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever,
10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
11 "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being."