Passage Research
Revelation 10 — Sermon Preparation
A mighty angel gives John a small scroll to eat, and John is told he must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, and kings. Below is a research summary for Revelation 10, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Greek words / lemmas
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- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
Revelation 10 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ἄγγελος | ángelos | G32 | 6 | angel, messenger |
| φωνή | phōnḗ | G5456 | 5 | noise, sound, voice |
| βιβλαρίδιον | bibliarídion | G974 | 3 | little book |
| οὐρανός | ouranós | G3772 | 5 | air, heaven, sky |
| θάλασσα | thálassa | G2281 | 4 | sea |
| βροντή | brontḗ | G1027 | 3 | thunder |
| χείρ | cheír | G5495 | 4 | hand |
How preachers through history handled this text
4 public-domain excerpts on Revelation 10, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This chapter is an introduction to the latter part of the prophecies of this book. Whether what is contained between this and the sounding of the seventh trumpet (ch. xi. 15) be a distinct prophecy from the other, or only a more general account of some of the principal things included in the other, is disputed by our curious enquirers into these abstruse writings. However, here we have, I. A remarkable description of a very glorious angel with an open book in his hand, ver. 1-3. II. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 6 (Acts to Revelation), on Revelation 10:1–25 (Public Domain)
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