10:5 Dan. 12:7
10:9 Ez. 3:1
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Another strong Angel crying out, 8. Seven thunders do speak. 6. The Angel swears that there shall be time no more, out at the voice of the seventh Angel the mystery shall be fully accomplished. 9. He gives John a book to devour.
1 AND I saw another Angel, strong, descending from heaven, clothed with a
cloud, and a rainbow on his head, and his face was as the sun, and his
feet as a pillar of fire.
2 And he had in his hand a little book opened: and he put his right foot upon the sea, and his left upon the land.
3 And he cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars. And when he had cried, the seven thunders spoke their voices.
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And when the seven thunders had spoken their voices, I was about to
write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying to me: Sign the things
which the seven thunders have spoken: and write them not.
5 And the *Angel which I saw standing upon the sea and upon the land, lifted up his hand to heaven,
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and he swore by him that lives for ever and ever, that created heaven
and those things which are in it: and the earth, and those things which
are in it: and the sea, and those things which are in it. That there
shall be time no more:
7 but in the days of the voice of the
seventh Angel, when the trumpet shall begin to sound, the mystery of God
shall be consummate, as he has evangelized by his servants the
Prophets.
8 And I heard a voice from heaven again speaking with
me, and saying: Go, and take the book that is opened, of the hand of the
Angel standing upon the sea and upon the land.
9 And I went to
the Angel, saying unto him, that he should give me the book. And he said
to me, *Take the book, and devour it: and it shall make your belly to be
bitter, but in your mouth it shall be sweet as it were honey.
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And I took the book of the hand of the Angel, and devoured it: and it
was in my mouth as it were honey, sweet. And when I had devoured it, my
belly was made bitter,
11 and he said to me, You must again prophecy to Nations, and peoples, and tongues, and many kings.
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Christ the valiant Angel is here described.
10:4 write them not: Many great mysteries and truths are to be preserved in the Church, which for causes known to God's providence are not to be written in the book of holy Scripture.
10:5 lifted up: This was the manner of taking an oath by the true God.
10:9 take the book and devour it: By earnest study and meditation. sweet as it were honey: Sweet in reading, but is somewhat bitter because it commands worship of penance and suffering of tribulations.
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