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After seven days I dreamed a dream in the night.
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And lo, a wind arose from the sea and stirred up all its waves.
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As I kept looking the wind made something like the figure of a man come up out of the heart of the sea. And I saw that this man flew with the clouds of heaven; and wherever he turned his face to look, everything under his gaze trembled,
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and whenever his voice issued from his mouth, all who heard his voice melted as wax melts when it feels the fire.
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After this I looked and saw that an innumerable multitude of people were gathered together from the four winds of heaven to make war against the man who came up out of the sea.
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And I looked and saw that he carved out for himself a great mountain, and flew up on to it.
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And I tried to see the region or place from which the mountain was carved, but I could not.
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After this I looked and saw that all who had gathered together against him, to wage war with him, were filled with fear, and yet they dared to fight.
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When he saw the onrush of the approaching multitude, he neither lifted his hand nor held a spear or any weapon of war;
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but I saw only how he sent forth from his mouth something like a stream of fire, and from his lips a flaming breath, and from his tongue he shot forth a storm of sparks.