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.

⁸ And I looked, and there was a pale-green^[a] horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following after him.^(A) They were^[b] given authority^(B) over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword, by famine, by plague, and by the wild animals of the earth.^(C)