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Revelation 10
11 verses with commentary
The Angel and the Little Scroll
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
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<strong>And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:...</strong> This verse from Revelation's vision of angel with little book - mystery of god completed, prophetic commission renewed employs apocalyptic imagery rich with Old Testament allusions and symbolic meaning...
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**FIRST SCENE OF THE INTERPOSED VISION.**
(1, 2) **And I saw . . .**—Translate, *And I saw another mighty angel descending out of the heaven, clothed with a cloud, and the* (not “a”) *rainbow upon his head, and his face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire, and having in his hand a little book* (or, *roll) open. *Many have thought that this angel can be none other than Christ Himself. It mu...
Read full commentary →And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
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<strong>And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,...</strong> This verse from Revelation's vision of angel with little book - mystery of god completed, prophetic commission renewed employs apocalyptic imagery rich with Old Testament allusions and symbolic meaning. The Greek text uses vivid apocalyptic language characteristic ...
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CHAPTER 4
1Jo 4:1-21. Tests of False Prophets. Love, the Test of Birth from God, and the Necessary Fruit of Knowing His Great Love in Christ to Us.
**1. Beloved--**the affectionate address wherewith he calls their attention, as to an important subject.
**every spirit--**which presents itself in the person of a prophet. The Spirit of truth, and the spirit of error, speak by men's spirits as t...
Read full commentary →And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
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<strong>And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices....</strong> This verse from Revelation's vision of angel with little book - mystery of god completed, prophetic commission renewed employs apocalyptic imagery rich with Old Testament allusions and symbolic meaning. The Greek text uses vivid apocalyptic language characteristic of...
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(3) **And cried with a loud voice . . .**—Better, *and he cried with a loud voice, even as a lion roareth. *Another token of the presence of Christ with the Church. The voice is the voice of a courage and strength derived from Him who is the “Lion of the **tribe **of Judah.”
**And when he had cried **. . .—Translate, *and when he cried*, *the seven thunders* (notice, not seven thunders,” but “*the...
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**2. Hereby--**"Herein."
**know ... the Spirit of God--**whether he be, or not, in those teachers professing to be moved by Him.
**Every spirit--**that is, Every teacher claiming inspiration by the Holy Spirit.
**confesseth--**The truth is taken for granted as established. Man is required to confess it, that is, in his teaching to profess it openly.
**Jesus Christ is come in the flesh--**a...
Read full commentary →And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
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<strong>And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not....</strong> This verse from Revelation's vision of angel with little book - mystery of god completed, prophetic commission renewed employs apocalyptic imagery rich with Old Testament allusions ...
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(4) **And when the seven **. . .—Translate, *And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write: and I heard a voice out of the heaven*, *saying, Seal up the things which the. seven thunders spoke, and write them not.* He could have written down their utterances. It was no mere thunder-like sound he heard: the thunders spoke; and he would have continued his writing as he had been commanded (R...
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**3. confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh--**Irenæus [3.8], Lucifer, Origen, on Mt 25:14, and Vulgate read, "Every spirit which destroys (sets aside, or does away with) Jesus (Christ)." Cyprian and Polycarp support English Version text. The oldest extant manuscripts, which are, however, centuries after Polycarp, read, "Every spirit that confesseth not (that is, refuses to confess)...
Read full commentary →And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
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<strong>And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,...</strong> This verse from Revelation's vision of angel with little book - mystery of god completed, prophetic commission renewed employs apocalyptic imagery rich with Old Testament allusions and symbolic meaning. The Greek text uses vivid apocalyptic language characteristic of Jewish prophetic l...
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(5-7) **And the angel . . .**—Translate, *And the angel whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted his right hand to the heaven, and sware in *(or, by)* Him who liveth unto the ages of the ages, who created the heaven, and the things in it, and the earth, and the things in it, and the sea, and the things in it, that time *(i.e., delay, or postponement)* should no longer be: but in ...
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**4. Ye--**emphatical: Ye who confess Jesus: in contrast to "them," the false teachers.
**overcome them--**(1Jo 5:4, 5); instead of being "overcome and brought into (spiritual) bondage" by them (2Pe 2:19). Joh 10:8, 5, "the sheep did not hear them": "a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers."
**he that is in you--**God, of whom ye are.
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Read full commentary →And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are , and the earth, and the things that therein are , and the sea, and the things which are therein , that there should be time no longer:
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<strong>And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that...</strong> This verse from Revelation's vision of angel with little book - mystery of god completed, prophetic commission renewed employs apocalyptic imagery rich with Old Testament allusion...
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**5. of the world--**They derive their spirit and teaching from the world, "unregenerate human nature, ruled over and possessed by Satan, the prince of this world" [Alford].
**speak they of the word--**They draw the matter of their conversation from the life, opinions, and feelings of the world.
**the world heareth them--**(Joh 15:18, 19). The world loves its own.
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
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<strong>But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets....</strong> This verse from Revelation's vision of angel with little book - mystery of god completed, prophetic commission renewed employs apocalyptic imagery rich with Old Testament allusions and symbolic meaning. The Gre...
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**6. We--**true teachers of Christ: in contrast to them.
**are of God--**and therefore speak of God: in contrast to "speak they of the world," 1Jo 4:5.
**knoweth God--**as his Father, being a child "of God" (1Jo 2:13, 14).
**heareth us--**Compare Joh 18:37, "Every one that is of the truth, heareth My voice."
**Hereby--**(1Jo 4:2-6); by their confessing, or not confessing, Jesus; by the kin...
Read full commentary →And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
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<strong>And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth....</strong> This verse from Revelation's vision of angel with little book - mystery of god completed, prophetic commission renewed employs apocalyptic imagery rich with Old Testament allusions and symbolic ...
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(8-9) **And** **the voice **. . .—Translate, *And the voice which I heard out of the heaven *(I heard it) *again talking with me (it is not the angel that speaks, but the voice which had bidden him seal up the thunders is heard again speaking), and saying, Go, take the roll *(or, the little roll; there is a difference in the MSS.) *which is opened in the hand of the angel who stands upon the sea a...
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7. Resumption of the main theme (1Jo 2:29). Love, the sum of righteousness, is the test of our being born of God. Love flows from a sense of God's love to us: compare 1Jo 4:9 with 1Jo 3:16, which 1Jo 4:9 resumes; and 1Jo 4:13 with 1Jo 3:24, which similarly 1Jo 4:13 resumes. At the same time, 1Jo 4:7-21 is connected with the immediately preceding context, 1Jo 4:2 setting forth Christ's incarnation,...
Read full commentary →And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
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<strong>And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey....</strong> This verse from Revelation's vision of angel with little book - mystery of god completed, prophetic commission renewed employs apocalyptic imagery rich with Old Testament allusions an...
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**8. knoweth not--**Greek aorist: not only knoweth not now, but never knew, has not once for all known God.
**God is love--**There is no Greek article to love, but to God; therefore we cannot translate, Love is God. God is fundamentally and essentially LOVE: not merely is loving, for then John's argument would not stand; for the conclusion from the premises then would be this, This man is not lo...
Read full commentary →And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
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<strong>And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter....</strong> This verse from Revelation's vision of angel with little book - mystery of god completed, prophetic commission renewed employs apocalyptic imagery rich with Old Testament allusions and symbolic meaning. The Greek text uses...
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(10) **And** **I took** **. . .**—The Evangelist takes the roll, as he was bidden, out of the angel’s hand, eats it up, and finds it, as he was told, “in his mouth as honey, sweet.” In this his experience resembles that of Ezekiel, who found the roll in his mouth as honey for sweetness (Ezekiel 3:3). So the Psalmist could rejoice in God’s words and God’s law as sweet, sweeter than honey and the ho...
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**9. toward us--**Greek, "in our case."
**sent--**Greek, "hath sent."
**into the world--**a proof against Socinians, that the Son existed before He was "sent into the world." Otherwise, too, He could not have been our life (1Jo 4:9), our "propitiation" (1Jo 4:10), or our "Saviour" (1Jo 4:14). It is the grand proof of God's love, His having sent "His only-begotten Son, that we might live throug...
Read full commentary →And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
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<strong>And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings....</strong> This verse from Revelation's vision of angel with little book - mystery of god completed, prophetic commission renewed employs apocalyptic imagery rich with Old Testament allusions and symbolic meaning. The Greek text uses vivid apocalyptic language characteristic of Jewish p...
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(11) **And he . . .**—Better, *And they* (not “he,” as in the English version, but *they say:* an equivalent for “It was said,”) *say to me, Thou must again prophesy concerning* (or, *with regard to) peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings many.* He is told that the bitterness will arise in connection with his prophecies with regard to peoples and kings. This carries us on to the vision in th...
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**10. Herein is love--**love in the abstract: love, in its highest ideal, is herein. The love was all on God's side, none on ours.
**not that we loved God--**though so altogether worthy of love.
**he loved us--**though so altogether unworthy of love. The Greek aorist expresses, Not that we did any act of love at any time to God, but that He did the act of love to us in sending Christ.