Revelation 10:9 (WEB)
I 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.”
Fathers and councils · 3
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VI.6Book VI
“John also is recorded to have seen and done a similar thing.” — editor's note: Cf. Rev. x. 9.
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Jerome
“…he is sitting in the safe shelter of his island, that is, of the church’s pale, and it may be that even now, like John, he is being called to eat God’s book; whilst I, still lying in the sepulchre of my sins and bound with the chains of my iniquities, wait for the Lord’s command in the Gospel: “Jerome, come forth.”” — editor's note: Rev. x. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“They quote the passage which says that “the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb;” which is sweet indeed in the eater’s mouth but is afterwards found more bitter than gall.” — editor's note: Rev. x. 9, 10.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.6.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.6.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.6.