And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
And to read. B, 'Aleph ('), Vulgate, Origen, Cyprian, Hilary omit. To read would be awkward between 'to open the book' and "to look thereon." John, having been promised a revelation of "things which must be hereafter," weeps at his earnest desire being frustrated. He is a pattern to all, as an eager, teachable learner of the Apocalypse.