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启示录 10:8

我先前聽見那從天上來的聲音又對我說:“你去,把那站在海上和地上的天使手中展開的書卷拿過來。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Sea;   Vision;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Preaching;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Apocalyptic;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Order;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Revelation, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Honey ;   Sea ;   Voice;   Voice (2);   Writing;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Bulrush;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Revelation of John:;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bat Ḳol;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 先 前 从 天 上 所 听 见 的 那 声 音 又 吩 咐 我 说 : 你 去 , 把 那 踏 海 踏 地 之 天 使 手 中 展 开 的 小 书 卷 取 过 来 。

Contextual Overview

8 Then I heard the same voice from heaven again, saying to me: "Go and take the open scroll that is in the hand of the angel that is standing on the sea and on the land." 9 So I went to the angel and told him to give me the small scroll. And he said to me, "Take the scroll and eat it. It will be sour in your stomach, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey." 10 So I took the small scroll from the angel's hand and ate it. In my mouth it tasted sweet as honey, but after I ate it, it was sour in my stomach. 11 Then I was told, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the voice: Revelation 10:4, Revelation 10:5, Isaiah 30:21

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 2:9 - a roll Zechariah 5:1 - roll Matthew 14:25 - walking Acts 15:20 - from pollutions Revelation 5:1 - a book Revelation 10:2 - he set Revelation 21:3 - a great

Cross-References

Micah 5:6
They will destroy the Assyrians with their swords; they will conquer the land of Assyria with their swords drawn. They will rescue us from the Assyrians when they come into our land, when they walk over our borders.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the voice which I heard from heaven,.... In Revelation 10:4;

spake to 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; as John was to prophesy, Revelation 10:11; it was necessary that he should have a mission and a commission from heaven; and that he should have the open book of prophecy to prophesy out of; and that he should receive this from the angel's hands, who had unloosed its seals, and opened it: and just so to ordinary prophesying, or preaching, it is necessary that men should have their commission from heaven, should be called of God, and sent by him; and that they should have the book of the Scriptures before them, and open to them, and speak according to these oracles, agreeably to the law and to the testimony, which are profitable for doctrine; and that they should also receive the Gospel, and the doctrines of it, with gifts, and a commission to preach it, from the Angel of the covenant, Jesus Christ, who has all power both in heaven and in earth; see Revelation 10:2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the voice which I heard from heaven - Revelation 10:4. This is not the voice of the angel, but a direct divine command,

Said, Go and take the little book which is open, ... - That is, take it out of his hand, and do with it as you shall be commanded. There is a very strong resemblance between this passage and the account contained in Ezekiel 2:9-10; Ezekiel 3:1-3. Ezekiel was directed to go to the house of Israel and deliver a divine message, whether they would hear or forbear; and in order that he might understand what message to deliver, there was shown to him a roll of a book, written within and without. That roll he was commanded to eat, and he found it to be “in his mouth as honey for sweetness.” John has added to this the circumstance that, though “sweet in the mouth,” it made “the belly bitter.” The additional command Revelation 10:11, that he must yet “prophecy before many people,” leads us to suppose that he had the narrative in Ezekiel in his eye; for, as the result of his eating the roll, he was commanded to go and prophesy to the people of Israel. The passage here Revelation 10:8 introduces a new symbol, that of “eating the book,” and evidently refers to something that was to occur before the “mystery should be finished”; that is, before the seventh trumpet should sound.

“Which is open in the hand ...” On the symbolical meaning of the word “open,” as applied to the book, see the notes on Revelation 10:2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 10:8. Take the little book which is open — Learn from this angel what should be published to the world.


 
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