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The Angel with a Little Scroll

10 Then I saw another powerful angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud with a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun and his feet like pillars of fire. He had in his hand a little scroll that was open. He set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, and he cried out with a loud voice, just as a lion roars. When he cried out, the seven thunders spoke.[a]

And when the seven thunders had spoken, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said. Do not write it down!”[b]

Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand toward heaven and swore[c] by the One who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay.

But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel—when he is about to trumpet—the mystery of God is completed, just as He declared to His servants the prophets. [d] Then the voice that I heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land.”

So I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little scroll. And he tells me, “Take and eat it. It will be bitter to your stomach, but sweet as honey in your mouth.”[e]

10 So I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth; but when I had swallowed it, my stomach was made bitter. 11 And they tell me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”

10 Καὶ εἶδον [a]ἄλλον ἄγγελον ἰσχυρὸν καταβαίνοντα ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, περιβεβλημένον νεφέλην, καὶ ἡ ἶρις ἐπὶ [b]τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ὡς ὁ ἥλιος, καὶ οἱ πόδες αὐτοῦ ὡς στῦλοι πυρός, καὶ ἔχων ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ [c]βιβλαρίδιον ἠνεῳγμένον. καὶ ἔθηκεν τὸν πόδα αὐτοῦ τὸν δεξιὸν ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης, τὸν δὲ εὐώνυμον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἔκραξεν φωνῇ μεγάλῃ ὥσπερ λέων μυκᾶται. καὶ ὅτε ἔκραξεν, ἐλάλησαν αἱ ἑπτὰ βρονταὶ τὰς ἑαυτῶν φωνάς. καὶ ὅτε ἐλάλησαν αἱ ἑπτὰ βρονταί, ἤμελλον γράφειν· καὶ ἤκουσα φωνὴν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ λέγουσαν· Σφράγισον ἃ ἐλάλησαν αἱ ἑπτὰ βρονταί, καὶ μὴ αὐτὰ γράψῃς. καὶ ὁ ἄγγελος, ὃν εἶδον ἑστῶτα ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ἦρεν τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ τὴν δεξιὰν εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, καὶ [d]ὤμοσεν τῷ ζῶντι εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων, ὃς ἔκτισεν τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ, ὅτι χρόνος οὐκέτι ἔσται· ἀλλ’ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῆς φωνῆς τοῦ ἑβδόμου ἀγγέλου, ὅταν μέλλῃ σαλπίζειν, καὶ ἐτελέσθη τὸ μυστήριον τοῦ θεοῦ, ὡς εὐηγγέλισεν τοὺς [e]ἑαυτοῦ δούλους τοὺς προφήτας.

Καὶ ἡ φωνὴ ἣν ἤκουσα ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, πάλιν [f]λαλοῦσαν μετ’ ἐμοῦ καὶ [g]λέγουσαν· Ὕπαγε λάβε τὸ [h]βιβλίον τὸ ἠνεῳγμένον ἐν τῇ χειρὶ τοῦ ἀγγέλου τοῦ ἑστῶτος ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. καὶ [i]ἀπῆλθα πρὸς τὸν ἄγγελον λέγων αὐτῷ δοῦναί μοι τὸ [j]βιβλαρίδιον. καὶ λέγει μοι· Λάβε καὶ κατάφαγε αὐτό, καὶ πικρανεῖ σου τὴν κοιλίαν, ἀλλ’ ἐν τῷ στόματί σου ἔσται γλυκὺ ὡς μέλι. 10 καὶ ἔλαβον τὸ [k]βιβλαρίδιον ἐκ τῆς χειρὸς τοῦ ἀγγέλου καὶ κατέφαγον αὐτό, καὶ ἦν ἐν τῷ στόματί μου ὡς μέλι γλυκύ· καὶ ὅτε ἔφαγον αὐτό, ἐπικράνθη ἡ κοιλία μου.

11 Καὶ λέγουσίν μοι· Δεῖ σε πάλιν προφητεῦσαι ἐπὶ λαοῖς [l]καὶ ἔθνεσιν καὶ γλώσσαις καὶ βασιλεῦσιν πολλοῖς.

Footnotes

  1. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 10:1 ἄλλον WH Treg NIV ] – RP
  2. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 10:1 τὴν κεφαλὴν WH Treg ] τῆς κεφαλῆς NIV RP
  3. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 10:2 βιβλαρίδιον WH Treg NIV ] βιβλίον RP
  4. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 10:6 ὤμοσεν RP ] + ἐν WH Treg NIV
  5. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 10:7 ἑαυτοῦ δούλους WH Treg NIV ] δούλους αὐτοῦ RP
  6. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 10:8 λαλοῦσαν WH Treg NIV ] λαλοῦσα RP
  7. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 10:8 λέγουσαν WH Treg NIV ] λέγουσα RP
  8. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 10:8 βιβλίον WH Treg NIV ] βιβλιδάριον RP
  9. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 10:9 ἀπῆλθα WH NIV ] ἀπῆλθον Treg RP
  10. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 10:9 βιβλαρίδιον WH Treg NIV ] βιβλιδάριον RP
  11. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 10:10 βιβλαρίδιον WH Treg NIV ] βιβλίον RP
  12. ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 10:11 καὶ WH Treg NIV ] + ἐπὶ RP