Exegesis
- at the center of the throne, encircled
- from his mouth a two-edged sword
- trembling hands clutch the veil
- the key (lesser)
- the key
- written in the blackness behind the stars
- made to suffer
- thereupon I saw the wolves, and how they oppressed the sheep exceedingly with all their power
- this course of fire is the fire in the west which persecutes all the luminaries of heaven