Raw Greek Parsing Data

Source

Full parsing data from D:/bible/bible-studies/grammar-reference/passages/rev-10-1-11.md (generated by grammar-study skill in Phase 3.5).

The passage analysis contains verse-by-verse parsing tables for all 11 verses of Revelation 10, with detailed grammatical commentary on each verse. Key data points extracted below.

Rev 10:1 — Theophanic Description

• εἶδον (V-2AAI-1S): second aorist "I saw" — governs the entire verse
• καταβαίνοντα (V-PAP-ASM): present active participle — ongoing descent
• περιβεβλημένον (V-RPP-ASM): perfect passive participle — settled state of being clothed with a cloud. Same construction as Rev 12:1, 19:13.

Rev 10:2 — Little Book Open

• ἔχων (V-PAP-NSM): present active participle — "having" (continuous possession)
• ἠνεῳγμένον (V-RPP-ASN): perfect passive participle of ἀνοίγω (G455) — permanently opened state. The book was opened at some prior point and now stands open. Passive: opened by an agent other than the holder.
• ἔθηκεν (V-AAI-3S): aorist — "he set" (single decisive act)

Rev 10:3-4 — Seven Thunders Sealed

• ἔκραξεν (V-AAI-3S): aorist — "he cried" (completed act)
• μυκᾶται (V-PNI-3S): present middle/passive — "roars" (gnomic present, what a lion characteristically does)
• ἤμελλον γράφειν (V-IAI-1S + V-PAN): imperfect of μέλλω + present infinitive — "I was about to write" (conative imperfect: intention interrupted)
• Σφράγισον (V-AAM-2S): aorist active imperative of σφραγίζω — "seal up!" Single decisive act. The ONLY sealing command in Revelation's unsealing program.
• μὴ γράψῃς (PRT-N + V-AAS-2S): prohibitive subjunctive — "do not write these things"

Rev 10:5-6 — The Oath

• ἑστῶτα (V-RAP-ASM): perfect active participle of ἵστημι — stative perfect, "standing." Not "having taken a stand" but "being in the posture of standing."
• ἦρεν (V-AAI-3S): aorist — "lifted" (single decisive act of raising the hand)
• ὤμοσεν (V-AAI-3S): aorist active indicative of ὀμνύω (G3660) — "he swore" (completed act)
• ἐν τῷ ζῶντι (PREP + T-DSM + V-PAP-DSM): "by the living one" — substantival present active participle
• ἔκτισεν (V-AAI-3S): constative aorist of κτίζω — entire creation as one act
• χρόνος (N-NSM): anarthrous nominative — qualitative "time/delay"
• οὐκέτι (ADV-N): "no longer" — presupposes prior state
• ἔσται (V-FDI-3S): future middle/deponent of εἰμί — prospective declaration

Rev 10:7 — Mystery Finished

• ὅταν μέλλῃ σαλπίζειν (V-PAS-3S + V-PAN): present subjunctive + present infinitive — "whenever he is about to trumpet" (indefinite temporal)
• ἐτελέσθη (V-API-3S): aorist passive indicative of τελέω — proleptic/prophetic aorist: future event described as already completed. Divine passive: God finishes his mystery.
• εὐηγγέλισεν (V-AAI-3S): aorist of εὐαγγελίζω — "he declared good news" (single historical proclamation)

Rev 10:8 — Take the Book

• τὸ βιβλίον τὸ ἠνεῳγμένον (T-ASN + N-ASN + T-ASN + V-RPP-ASN): shift from βιβλαρίδιον to βιβλίον. Same perfect passive participle in second-attributive position: "the book — the one having been opened."
• Ὕπαγε (V-PAM-2S): present imperative — "go" (process)
• λάβε (V-2AAM-2S): aorist imperative — "take" (punctiliar act)

Rev 10:9 — Sweet and Bitter

• λέγει (V-PAI-3S): historic present — vivid narrative device
• κατάφαγε (V-2AAM-2S): aorist imperative of κατεσθίω — "devour completely" (κατά intensifies)
• πικρανεῖ (V-FAI-3S): future active — "it shall make bitter" (scroll is agent)
• ἔσται γλυκὺ ὡς μέλι (V-FDI-3S + A-NSN): future — "it shall be sweet as honey"

Rev 10:10 — Experience

• ἔλαβον, κατέφαγον (V-2AAI-1S × 2): aorist — "I took, I devoured" (completed acts)
• ἦν γλυκύ (V-IAI-3S + A-NSN): imperfect — durative sweetness during eating
• ἐπικράνθη (V-API-3S): aorist passive — "was made bitter" (scroll's content causes bitterness; belly is patient)

Rev 10:11 — The Recommission

• λέγουσίν (V-PAI-3P): present active indicative 3rd PLURAL — "they say" (not "he said"). Greek is unambiguously plural despite KJV singular.
• Δεῖ (V-PAI-3S): impersonal present — divine necessity currently operative
• σε (P-2AS): accusative subject of infinitive — John personally commissioned
• πάλιν (ADV): "again" — presupposes prior prophetic activity; modifies the infinitive not the finite verb
• προφητεῦσαι (V-AAN): aorist active infinitive — the ONLY aorist infinitive of προφητεύω in the entire NT. Treats the commission as a complete, bounded task (contrast present infinitive in 1 Cor 14:31, 14:39).
• ἐπὶ λαοῖς καὶ ἔθνεσιν καὶ γλώσσαις καὶ βασιλεῦσιν πολλοῖς: ἐπί + dative series — "concerning/over peoples, nations, tongues, and many kings." Four-fold universal scope formula.

Tense-Voice-Mood Distribution (Full Passage)

Tense/Mood	Count	Function
Aorist Active Indicative	16	Narrative backbone
Present Active Participle	8	Descriptive modifiers
Perfect Passive Participle	4	Stative conditions (opened book ×2, clothed, standing ×2)
Aorist Active Imperative	4	Commands (seal, take ×2, devour)
Future Indicative	3	Predictions (bitter, sweet, time ceases)
Imperfect Indicative	2	Background states
Present Active Indicative	3	Gnomic, historic present, impersonal
Aorist Passive Indicative	2	Divine passive (finished, made bitter)
Aorist Active Infinitive	3	Complements
Present Active Subjunctive	1	Temporal-conditional
Aorist Active Subjunctive	1	Prohibitive