Revelation 10 is the tenth chapter of the

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. The book is traditionally attributed to

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, but the precise identity of the author remains a point of academic debate. This chapter and the first part of the next chapter report two episodes which intervene between the sounding of the sixth and seventh

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Text

The original text was written in

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. This chapter is divided into 11 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are among others: *

Papyrus 115 Papyrus 115, also known as ''P. Oxy. 4499'', is a fragmented manuscript of the New Testament written in Greek on papyrus. It is designated by the siglum in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts. It consists of 26 fragments of ...

(ca. AD 275; extant verses 1–4, 8–11) *

Papyrus 47 Papyrus 47, also known as ''P. Chester Beatty'' III, is an early Greek New Testament manuscript written on papyrus, and is one of the manuscripts comprising the Chester Beatty Papyri. It is designated by the siglum in the Gregory-Aland numberi ...

(3rd century; complete) *

Papyrus 85 Papyrus 85 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓85, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Book of Revelation. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 4th century (or the ...

(4th century; extant verses 1–2, 5–9) *

Codex Sinaiticus The Codex Sinaiticus (; Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), also called the Sinai Bible, is a fourth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old Testament, including the deuterocanonica ...

(330-360) *

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(400-440) *

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(ca. 450; extant verses 1–9)

Old Testament references

* : ;

Verse 1

:'' I saw still another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud.'' :''And a rainbow was on his head, his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. '' *"Another mighty angel": not one of the four angels standing at the corners of the earth (), the seven angels who were given the seven trumpets (), the angel with the golden censer () or the four angels chained up by the river

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(), but possibly the same "mighty" angel previously mentioned in .Simcox, W. H.
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
on Revelation 10:1, accessed 3 November 2018 Yet "another angel" proclaims the fall of Babylon the Great in . *"Clothed with a cloud": and therefore clothed with something of the state with which Christ will come in

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().

Verse 4

:''Now when the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them."'' NKJV *"Uttered": or "sounded".

Verse 9

:''So I went to the angel and said to him, "Give me the little book."'' ::''And he said to me, "Take and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth."''

Verse 11

: ''And he he angelsaid to me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.”'' NKJV''John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible'' - Revelation 10:11
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Notes

References

External links

* King James Bible - Wikisource
English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate

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