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(H6:26) Alsdann schrieb der König Darius an alle Völker, Völkerschaften und Sprachen, welche auf der ganzen Erde wohnten: Friede euch in Fülle!
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(H6:26) Alsdann schrieb der König Darius an alle Völker, Völkerschaften und Sprachen, welche auf der ganzen Erde wohnten: Friede euch in Fülle!
482. Then I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it, and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey. (10:10) But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter. This symbolically means that so it came to pass, and thus it was shown, how this doctrine would be received before those people meant by the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet were removed.
Because this follows as a consequence from the aforesaid, it needs no further exposition.
We read that the prophet Ezekiel, too, was commanded to eat the scroll of a book, and that it was in his mouth as sweet as honey (Ezekiel 2:8-10; 3:1-3).
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I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.