Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 10:8 - 10:8

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Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 10:8 - 10:8


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Again speaking and saying (palin lalousan kai legousan). Present active predicate participles feminine accusative singular agreeing with hēn (object of ēkousa), not with phōnē (nominative) as most of the cursives have it (lalousa kai legousa). Ordinarily it would be elalei kai elegen. See Rev 4:1 for like idiom. This is the voice mentioned in Rev 10:4. No great distinction is to be made here between laleō and legō.

Go, take (Hupage labe). Present active imperative of hupagō and second aorist active imperative of lambanō. The use of hupage (exclamation like ide) is common in N.T. (Mat 5:24; Mat 8:4; Mat 19:21; Joh 4:16; Joh 9:7). Charles calls it a Hebraism (Rev 16:1). Note the repeated article here (to) referring to the open book in the hand of the angel (Rev 10:2), only here biblion is used, not the diminutive of biblaridion of Rev 10:2, Rev 10:9, Rev 10:10.