¹⁸ and the Living One.^(A) I was dead, but look – I am alive for ever and ever,^(B) and I hold the keys^(C) of death and Hades.

The Letter to Smyrna

⁸ ‘Write to the angel of the church in Smyrna: Thus says the First and the Last,^(A) the one who was dead and came to life: