SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:11
Y l me dice: Necesario es que otra vez profetices referente a muchos pueblos y naciones y lenguas y reyes.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 10:11
Verse 11. Thou must prophesy again] Thou must write, not only for the instruction of the Jews in Palestine, but of those in the different provinces, as well as the heathens and heathen emperors and potentates in general. THE reader will find, on comparing this chapter with Dan. viii. 1-27; xii. 1-13, and Ezek. ii. 1-iii. 27, that there are several things similar in both; and the writer of the Apocalypse appears to keep these two prophets continually in view. I must once more say that I do not understand these prophecies, therefore I do not take upon me to explain them. I see with regret how many learned men have mistaken their way here.
Commentators, and even some of the most modern, have strangely trifled in these solemn things; all trumpets, vials, woes, &c., are perfectly easy to them; yet from their descriptions, none get wise either to common sense or to the things that make for their peace.
On the same ground I cannot admit the interpretation that is given of the word cronov, translated time in ver. 6, which some have construed into an artificial period of 1, 111 years, which they term chronos; hence we have the chronos, half-chronos, and non-chronos.
Bengel has said much on these points, but to very little purpose; the word in the above place seems to signify delay simply, and probably refers to the long-suffering of God being ended in reference to Jerusalem; for I all along take for probable that this book was written previously to the destruction of that city.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. And he said unto me , etc.] That is, the angel, from whom John received the little book; the Alexandrian copy reads, they said unto me: both the voice of God the Father from heaven, that bid him take the book, and the angel that bid him eat it: thou must prophesy again before many people, and nations, and tongues, and kings ; which is to be understood not of John's preaching again to many people, and nations, after his return from his exile at Patmos, as he had done before his banishment thither; and much less of his prophesying along with Enoch and Elias, towards the end of the world, grounded upon two fabulous notions, the one that Enoch and Elias will appear in person before the coming of Christ, and the other, that John died not, but is still alive somewhere, and will continue till Christ's second coming; but rather of his delivering more prophecies out of the open little book; not before, as we render it, but either concerning many people, nations, tongues, and kings, as the Syriac version renders it: or against them, that is, those people, multitudes, nations, and tongues, over which the whore of Babylon reigns, or has reigned, and the ten kings, and kings of the earth she rules over, ( Revelation 17:12,13,15,18). Moreover, this may not so much design John's prophesying in person, as the prophesying: of the witnesses or ministers of the word in the several periods of time, whom John personated and represented; and of whom mention is made in the next chapter, to which this seems to be a transition.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-11 - Most men feel pleasure in looking into future events, and all good me like to receive a word from God. But when this book of prophecy wa thoroughly digested by the apostle, the contents would be bitter; ther were things so awful and terrible, such grievous persecutions of the people of God, such desolations in the earth, that the foresight an foreknowledge of them would be painful to his mind. Let us seek to be taught by Christ, and to obey his orders; daily meditating on his word that it may nourish our souls; and then declaring it according to ou several stations. The sweetness of such contemplations will often by mingled with bitterness, while we compare the Scriptures with the stat of the world and the church, or even with that of our own hearts __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
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