ACC ~ Revelation 10 v11

JOHN PROPHESIES AGAIN. VICTORINUS OF PETOVIUM: “It is necessary that you again preach,” that is, to prophesy, “among peoples and tongues and nations.” When John saw this revelation, he was on the island of Patmos, having been condemned to the mines by Caesar Domitian. There, it seems, John wrote the Revelation, and when he had already become aged, he thought that he would be received [into bliss] after his suffering. However, when Domitian was killed, all of his decrees were made null and void. John was, therefore, released from the mines, and afterward he disseminated the revelation that he had received from the Lord. That is what it means when it says, “You must prophesy again.” COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 10.3.

THE CHURCH FILLS THE WORLD WITH PREACHING. TYCONIUS: In the one angel he clearly shows the body of the church. Although he speaks of one, he shows many. “He says to me, ‘You must preach again.’” When did the church ever cease from its preaching, so that she should preach again what she had preached before? However, in the whole world [the church] is commanded to preach again among the peoples, tribes, tongues and in many regions what she had preached before. For there is one church diffused throughout the whole world, which she has filled with its preaching. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 10.11.

JOHN PROPHESIES TO THE END. OECUMENIUS: “It is necessary that you prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.” This is as though he had said, “Although you have seen the consummation of the age and the wrath against the wicked in this vision, do not think that the day of fulfillment has in fact come. There remains much time yet for you to prophesy to many nations and to kings.” And so it is that up to the present time the blessed Evangelist prophesies through his Gospel and his catholic epistles and this Revelation. For all things have been spoken and prophesied to him by the Spirit. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 10.8-11.

JOHN WILL PROPHESY AGAINST THE ANTICHRIST. ANDREW OF CAESAREA: This passage indicates either that after the vision of the divine Revelation, that which was seen will not immediately receive its fulfillment, but that the saint must prophesy to those who read his Gospel and his Revelation until the consummation. Or the passage indicates that [John] would not yet taste death, but that at the end he would come to hinder the acceptance of the deceit of the antichrist.COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 10.11.

PREACHING THE GOSPEL IS BITTER WORK. BEDE: He indicates that when he ate the book sweetness would be mixed with bitterness. That is to say, that when he is released from exile, he was to preach the gospel to the nations. This would be a sweet task as regards love, but it would be a bitter work on account of the persecutions that he would endure. EXPLANATION OF THE APOCALYPSE 10.11.