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title: "Revelation 10 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate"
url: https://blessbible.app/bible/revelation/10/
description: "The cry of a mighty angel. He gives John a book to eat. Revelation 10 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Revelation 10

Revelation 10 is chapter 10 of 22 in Revelation. Here are all 11 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The cry of a mighty angel. He gives John a book to eat.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Revelation 10 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And I saw another strong Angel, descending from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet were like columns of fire.
2. And he held in his hand a small open book. And he stationed his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot upon the land.
3. And he cried out with a great voice, in the manner of a lion roaring. And when he had cried out, seven thunders uttered their voices.
4. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write. But I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: “Seal the things that the seven thunders have spoken, and do not write them.”
5. And the Angel, whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the land, lifted up his hand toward heaven.
6. And he swore by the One who lives forever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that are in it; and the earth, and the things that are in it; and the sea, and the things that are in it: that the time will not be any longer,
7. but in the days of the voice of the seventh Angel, when he shall begin to sound the trumpet, the mystery of God will be completed, just as he has proclaimed in the Gospel, through his servants the Prophets.
8. And again, I heard a voice from heaven speaking with me and saying: “Go and receive the open book from the hand of the Angel who stands upon the sea and upon the land.”
9. And I went to the Angel, saying to him that he should give the book to me. And he said to me: “Receive the book and consume it. And it shall cause bitterness in your stomach, but in your mouth it shall be sweet like honey.”
10. And I received the book from the hand of the Angel, and I consumed it. And it was sweet like honey in my mouth. And when I had consumed it, my stomach was made bitter.
11. And he said to me, “It is necessary for you to prophesy again about many nations and peoples and languages and kings.”

## Revelation 10 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et vidi alium angelum fortem descendentem de cælo amictum nube, et iris in capite ejus, et facies ejus erat ut sol, et pedes ejus tamquam columnæ ignis:
2. et habebat in manu sua libellum apertum: et posuit pedem suum dextrum super mare, sinistrum autem super terram:
3. et clamavit voce magna, quemadmodum cum leo rugit. Et cum clamasset, locuta sunt septem tonitrua voces suas.
4. Et cum locuta fuissent septem tonitrua voces suas, ego scripturus eram: et audivi vocem de cælo dicentem mihi: Signa quæ locuta sunt septem tonitrua: et noli ea scribere.
5. Et angelus, quem vidi stantem super mare et super terram, levavit manum suam ad cælum:
6. et juravit per viventem in sæcula sæculorum, qui creavit cælum, et ea quæ in eo sunt: et terram, et ea quæ in ea sunt: et mare, et ea quæ in eo sunt: Quia tempus non erit amplius:
7. sed in diebus vocis septimi angeli, cum cœperit tuba canere, consummabitur mysterium Dei sicut evangelizavit per servos suos prophetas.
8. Et audivi vocem de cælo iterum loquentem mecum, et dicentem: Vade, et accipe librum apertum de manu angeli stantis super mare, et super terram.
9. Et abii ad angelum, dicens ei, ut daret mihi librum. Et dixit mihi: Accipe librum, et devora illum: et faciet amaricari ventrem tuum, sed in ore tuo erit dulce tamquam mel.
10. Et accepi librum de manu angeli, et devoravi illum: et erat in ore meo tamquam mel dulce, et cum devorassem eum, amaricatus est venter meus:
11. et dixit mihi: Oportet te iterum prophetare gentibus, et populis, et linguis, et regibus multis.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 7: literally evangelized, to signify the good tidings, agreeable to the Gospel, of the final victory of Christ, and of that eternal life, which should be the reward of the temporal sufferings of the martyrs and faithful servants of God.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Nov 20, 2026: Friday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Revelation 10:8-11
- Fri, Nov 24, 2028 (computed): St. Andrew Dung-Lac, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs — First Reading, Revelation 10:8-11

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).