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I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. See also: Ezekiel 1:28Matthew 17:2Revelation 1:15-16He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land. See also: Revelation 10:5Ezekiel 2:9-10Revelation 10:8-10He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices. See also: Isaiah 31:4Joel 3:16Revelation 4:5When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, “Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don’t write them.” See also: Daniel 12:4Daniel 8:26Daniel 12:9The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky See also: Daniel 12:7Deuteronomy 32:40Revelation 10:2and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay, See also: Revelation 4:11Revelation 4:9Revelation 16:17but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants the prophets. See also: Ephesians 3:3-9Romans 16:25Luke 24:44-47The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.” See also: Revelation 10:2Revelation 10:4-5Isaiah 30:21I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.” See also: Ezekiel 3:1-3Jeremiah 15:16Ezekiel 2:8I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter. See also: Ezekiel 3:3Proverbs 16:24Psalms 119:103They told me, “You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.” See also: Ezekiel 37:4Jeremiah 1:9-10Ezekiel 37:9
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)7 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Revelation 10:1
Ver. 1. I saw another mighty Angel. Some expound it of Christ himself: others of an Angel, representing the power of God over the sea and land. Wi.
↑ 1Revelation 10:3
Ver. 3. Seven thunders uttered their voice, to signify the following approaching evils, which S. John is ordered not to write down, though they were shewn to him; and if he was not to write them, even in such a mystical and prophetical manner as he wrote the other things, who can pretend to know any thing of them? Wi.
↑ 3Revelation 10:4
Ver. 4. And when the seven thunders had, &c. S. John is not permitted to write, but ordered to seal up the things which the seven thunders had spoken; which circumstance seems to insinuate, that the things spoken by the seven thunders were seven particulars of antichrist's persecution, as the word thunder is generally used in the Apocalypse to denote some disaster; and these seven particulars being most dreadful and severe, the Almighty chose to have them sealed up, or kept concealed, lest the foreknowledge of them should too much terrify and damp the human mind.
↑ 4Revelation 10:5–6
Ver. 5-6. The Angel . . . swore . . . that time shall be no longer. This seems to favour very much the exposition of those interpreters who think that all these things are not to be fulfilled till some short time before the end of the world.
Others (of which see Alcazar, &c.) take this to be a prediction of the ruin and destruction of the Jews, particularly under the emperor Adrian. Others (see the bishop of Meaux) understand by this, that the time was approaching when God, by his judgments, would put an end to the idolatry and heathen worship of pagan Rome, and that his providence would make the Christian faith triumph over all its adversaries, and his Church flourish, as foretold by the ancient prophets; that is, this should come to pass when the seventh Angel should sound his trumpet. Wi.
↑ 5Revelation 10:7
Ver. 7. Declared. Lit. evangelized, to signify the good tidings, agreeable to the gospel, of the final victory of Christ, and of that eternal life which should be the reward of the temporal sufferings of the servants of God. Ch.
↑ 7Revelation 10:9–10
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 9-10. Take the book, and devour it. See Ezech. ii. and iii. It was sweet in my mouth; I was delighted to read and hear the victories and glory of God's faithful servants; but it became bitter in my belly, when I considered the judgments of God upon so many sinners, who by their own wilful blindness were lost for eternity. Wi. — This mysterious book, presented to S. John precisely between the sound of the sixth and seventh trumpet, or rather between the irruption announced at the sound of the sixth trumpet, and the persecution which is then to follow and to precede the sound of the seventh trumpet, appears to represent the book of the gospel, which shall be given to the Jews at the end of the sixth age of the Church. This book will be then to them full of sweetness, because they will see in it the tender love of Jesus Christ; but at the same time it will cause bitterness, because they will see in it with grief their infidelity and that of their fathers. V.
↑ 9Revelation 10:11
Ver. 11. Thou must prophesy again: we may understand what still follows in this Apocalypse, or his gospel written afterwards, or his preaching and instructing the Asiatic Churches. Wi.
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↑ 11License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses