Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Revelation 10:1

ἄλλον. Griesb. omits with B2 1.

1. We are not told yet, as we might expect, that “the Second Woe is past,” nor does the Seventh Trumpet and the Third Woe immediately follow: but just as in ch. 7 the two descriptions of the sealed Israelites and the palm-bearing multitude came after the Sixth Seal, so here the vision of the mighty angel, and the prophecy (passing insensibly into a vision) of the Two Witnesses, follow the Sixth Trumpet.

ἄλλον ἄγγελον ἰσχυρόν. “Another,” probably, than the four mentioned in Revelation 9:15 : cf. Revelation 7:1-2. Some suppose a reference back to Revelation 5:2, where we have heard of a “mighty angel” (the epithet is the same) before.

περιβεβλημένον νεφέλην. And therefore with something of the state with which Christ will come to judgement: cf. Revelation 1:7 &c. The cloud is wrapt about the head as well as the shoulders, as appears from the next clause.

ἡ ἶρις. The article suggests that the same bow of God is seen every time that it appears.

οἱ πόδες. i.e. his legs are as thick as the pillars of a temple, and their substance of fiery brightness.

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