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In his hand he held a small scroll that had been opened. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,[a] and then he cried out in a loud voice as a lion roars. When he cried out, the seven thunders[b] raised their voices, too.(A) When the seven thunders had spoken, I was about to write it down; but I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders have spoken, but do not write it down.”

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Footnotes

  1. 10:2 He placed…on the land: this symbolizes the universality of the angel’s message, as does the figure of the small scroll open to be read.
  2. 10:3 The seven thunders: God’s voice announcing judgment and doom; cf. Ps 29:3–9, where thunder, as the voice of Yahweh, is praised seven times.