The voice … from heaven spoke to me again: this refers back to verse 4. In certain languages one cannot talk about “voices” speaking, and one must identify the speaker or owner of the voice. In such cases one may also translate this clause as “The person who had spoken to me from heaven said…” or “I again heard the voice speaking to me.”

Take the scroll: this does not imply force; as verse 9 says, John asks the angel for the scroll. Certain languages will state this clause differently by saying “Go and receive the open scroll from the hand.” Here the diminutive form of scroll is not used, as in verse 2, but the same form that appears in 5.1.

For the rest of the verse, see Rev. 10.2.

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on The Revelation to John. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1993. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .