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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Revelation 10:2 - 10:2
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he had - Greek, “Having.”
in his hand - in his left hand: as in Rev 10:5 (see on Rev 10:5), he lifts up his right hand to heaven.
a little book - a roll little in comparison with the “book” (Rev 5:1) which contained the whole vast scheme of God’s purposes, not to be fully read till the final consummation. This other, a less book, contained only a portion which John was now to make his own (Rev 10:9, Rev 10:11), and then to use in prophesying to others. The New Testament begins with the word “book” (Greek, “biblus”), of which “the little book” (Greek, “biblaridion”) is the diminutive, “the little bible,” the Bible in miniature.
upon the sea ... earth - Though the beast with seven heads is about to arise out of the sea (Rev 13:1), and the beast with two horns like a lamb (Rev 13:11) out of the earth, yet it is but for a time, and that time shall no longer be (Rev 10:6, Rev 10:7) when once the seventh trumpet is about to sound; the angel with his right foot on the sea, and his left on the earth, claims both as God’s, and as about soon to be cleared of the usurper and his followers.