“And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.”
So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll; and he said to me, 'Take it, and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey' — the angel grants the scroll with a paradoxical promise: sweet in the mouth (glukus, delightful taste) but bitter in the belly (pikros, causing nausea). This mirrors Ezekiel 2:10, 3:3, where the prophet eats the scroll; the sweetness-and-bitterness reflects the dual nature of God's word: comfort to the faithful, judgment to the wicked.
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