Revelation 10:5

And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth,.... His right foot being on the one, and his left foot upon the other, as described in Rev 10:2;

lifted up his hand to heaven; the…

And the angel which I saw stand ... - Rev 10:2. That is, John saw him standing in this posture when he made the oath which he proceeds to record. Lifted up his hand to heaven - The usual attitude in…

Lifted up his hand to heaven - As one making an appeal to the supreme Being.

Here we have an account of another vision the apostle was favoured with, between the sounding of the sixth trumpet and that of the seventh. And we observe,

I. The person who was principally concerned…

lifted up his hand to heaven Read, "his right hand." Cf. Dan 12:7, where the angel lifts up bothhands: here, his left is occupied with the book. For the gesture symbolic of an oath see Gen 14:22, &c.