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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Revelation 10:4 - 10:4
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when - Aleph reads, “Whatsoever things.” But most manuscripts support English Version.
uttered their voices - A, B, C, and Aleph omit “their voices.” Then translate, “had spoken.”
unto me - omitted by A, B, C, Aleph, and Syriac.
Seal up - the opposite command to Rev 22:20. Even though at the time of the end the things sealed in Daniel’s time were to be revealed, yet not so the voices of these thunders. Though heard by John, they were not to be imparted by him to others in this book of Revelation; so terrible are they that God in mercy withholds them, since “sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” The godly are thus kept from morbid ponderings over the evil to come; and the ungodly are not driven by despair into utter recklessness of life. Alford adds another aim in concealing them, namely, “godly fear, seeing that the arrows of God’s quiver are not exhausted.” Besides the terrors foretold, there are others unutterable and more horrifying lying in the background.