There is an intriguing bit of Scripture in The Revelation, chapter 1, verses 16 and 17. The author, a lonely prisoner on the barren cliffs of Patmos, writes that he saw the glorified Christ, the one "who lives and was dead," who is "alive forevermore." "He had in his right hand seven stars," John writes, and, upon seeing him, "I fell down at his feet as one dead." Then, the very next word is this: "He laid his right …