Revelation 10:4 - Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

Revelation 10:4

2 He had a little book open in his hand. ^aAnd he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

3 and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars. When he cried out, ^aseven thunders uttered their voices.

4 Now when the seven thunders¹ uttered their voices, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven saying² to me, ^a“Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them.”

5 The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land ^araised up his hand to heaven

6 and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, ^awho 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, ^bthat there should be delay no longer,

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Revelation 10:4

I was about to write (hmellon grafein). Imperfect active of mellw (double augment as in John 4:47; John 12:33; John 18:32) and the present (inchoative) active infinitive of grafw, "I was on the point of beginning to write," as commanded in Revelation 1:11, Revelation 1:19.

Seal up (sfragison). Aorist active imperative of sfragizw, tense of urgency, "seal up at once."

And write them not (kai mh auta grayhv). Prohibition with mh and the ingressive aorist active subjunctive of grafw, "Do not begin to write." It is idle to conjecture what was in the utterances. Compare Paul's silence in II Corinthians 12:4.

Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 10:4:

Revelation 8:1
Revelation 10:8
Revelation 10:11
Revelation 12:10
Revelation 14:2
Revelation 22:10

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