Revelation 10 — Greek text and reception
Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.
Chapter 10
The mighty angel and the little scroll
Verse 10:1
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud, and the rainbow upon his head, and his face like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Another mighty angel is the narrator's designation despite features resembling earlier divine imagery. Pronouns remain lower case rather than deciding the angel is Christ.
Reception: R042 (Victorinus tradition; scope 10:1–2).
Verse 10:2
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And he had in his hand a little scroll opened. And he placed his right foot upon the sea and his left upon the earth,
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The small opened scroll contrasts with the previously sealed scroll. Right foot on sea and left on earth preserve the specified sides.
Reception: R042 (Victorinus tradition; scope 10:1–2).
Verse 10:3
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
and cried with a loud voice just as a lion roars. And when he cried, the seven thunders spoke their own voices.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The angel's cry is lion-like; the seven thunders then speak their own voices. Their words are withheld in the next verse.
Reception: R043 (Victorinus tradition; scope 10:3–4).
Verse 10:4
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; and I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders spoke, and do not write it.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The content of the seven thunders is deliberately withheld by the source; no reconstruction is offered.
Reception: R043 (Victorinus tradition; scope 10:3–4).
Verse 10:5
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the angel whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth raised his right hand to heaven,
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The angel raises his right hand for the oath continued in 10:6. Sea and earth repeat the scope of his stance.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 10:6
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
and swore by the One living for the ages of the ages, who created heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there will be no more delay.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Delay is the contextual rendering of chronos, time, given the imminent completion in the next verse; the translation does not assert the abolition of temporal existence.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 10:7
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God will be completed, as He announced the good news to His own slaves, the prophets.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Will be completed interprets the Greek aorist etelesthē prospectively in the future-oriented announcement; the actual verbal form is noted rather than mistaken for a future form.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
The scroll is eaten
Verse 10:8
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the voice that I heard from heaven spoke with me again, saying, “Go, take the opened scroll in the hand of the angel standing upon the sea and upon the earth.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The heavenly voice speaks again and orders John to take the scroll. The form biblion here differs from the diminutive used in nearby verses without requiring a second object.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 10:9
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little scroll. And he says to me, “Take and devour it. It will make your belly bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Devour conveys the force of kataphage. The prediction names bitterness in the belly before sweetness in the mouth, as the source orders it.
Reception: R044 (Victorinus tradition; scope 10:9–10).
Verse 10:10
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and devoured it, and in my mouth it was sweet as honey; and when I ate it, my belly was made bitter.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The action fulfills both predicted tastes, narrated now as sweetness first and bitterness afterward; their order is not harmonized with 10:9.
Reception: R044 (Victorinus tradition; scope 10:9–10).
Verse 10:11
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And they say to me, “You must prophesy again concerning peoples and nations and tongues and many kings.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: They say is plural. The English does not replace it with a singular speaker. Concerning renders epi with peoples and kings; before is another possibility.
Reception: R045 (Victorinus tradition; scope 10:11).