1 After I had passed the beast and gone on about thirty feet, suddenly a young woman met me, dressed as if coming out of a bridal chamber, all in white and wearing white sandals, veiled up to her forehead, with a turban as a head covering, and her hair was white. 2 I recognized from the earlier visions that it was the Church, and I became more cheerful. She greeted me, saying, “Good morning, my good man”; and I greeted her in return, “Good morning, lady.” 3 She answered me, “Did you meet nothing on the way?” I said to her, “Lady, I met a monstrous beast, able to destroy whole peoples; but, by the power of the Lord and by His great mercy, I escaped it.” 4 “You escaped it well,” she said, “because you cast your care on God,⁠a and opened your heart to the Lord, believing that nothing else could save you except His great and glorious Name. Therefore the Lord sent His angel, the one over the beasts, whose name is Segri, and shut its mouth so that it would not harm you.⁠b You have escaped a great tribulation because of your faith, and because, though you saw such a huge beast, you did not doubt in your mind. 5 So go and declare His mighty works to God’s chosen, and tell them that this beast is an image of the great tribulation to come. So if you prepare yourselves in advance, and repent and turn to the Lord with your whole heart, you will be able to escape it, if your heart is made pure and without fault, and if for the rest of your days you serve the Lord blamelessly. Cast your cares on the Lord and He will set them right. 6 Trust in the Lord, you who are of two minds, for He can do all things—yes, He turns His anger away from you, and again He sends His plagues on you who are double-minded. Woe to those who hear these words and disobey; it would have been better for them if they had not been born.”⁠c