There were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle. By these two wings, some understand the love of God, and the fear of offending him; others, piety, prudence, &c. (Witham) --- The Church, on account of the severe pressure of the persecution, obtained from the Almighty a special protection and assistance. (Pastorini)
NOTES ON CHAP. XII., BY J. E. C. Verse Revelation 12:14. _AND TO THE WOMAN WERE GIVEN TWO WINGS OF A GREAT EAGLE_] Του αετου του μεγαλου· _Of THE great eagle_. The great eagle here mentioned is an e...
AND TO THE WOMAN WERE GIVEN TWO WINGS OF A GREAT EAGLE - The most powerful of birds, and among the most rapid in flight. See the notes on Revelation 4:7. The meaning here is, that the woman is represe...
REVELATION 12. THE VISION OF THE WOMAN, THE CHILD, AND THE DRAGON. This chapter has always presented difficulties to the student of Revelation. Two questions present themselves: (_a)_ What is the conn...
THE CONFLICT ON EARTH. "And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. And to the woman were given two wings of. great eagle, that...
THE WOMAN AND THE BEAST (Revelation 12:1-17) It is necessary to read this chapter as a whole before we examine it in detail. A great sign appeared in the sky--a woman clothed with the sun, and with t...
TWO. the two. A. the. GREAT EAGLE. Great is emph. Compare Deuteronomy 32:11; Deuteronomy 32:12. MIGHT. may. FLY. Greek. _petomai._ See Revelation 12:6.
_two wings_… _eagle_ Should be "THE two wings of THE great eagle." The word is, however, no doubt used generically. Some suppose "the great eagle" to symbolise the Roman empire, but that did _not_prot...
ΑἹ ΔΎΟ. Text. Rec[423] omits αἱ with אB2. [423] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. 14. ΑἹ ΔΎΟ ΠΤΈΡΥΓΕΣ ΤΟΥ͂�. The great eagle need not be any one mystical eagle known to the Seer and his d...
THE DELIVERANCE OF THE WOMAN...
_WAR ON THE EARTH REVELATION 12:13-17:_ The war on earth had to do with the persecution of the church by man and the protection of the church by God. God's people were given strength--two wings of the...
ΈΔΌΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать. _Pass._ является богословским, обозначающим, что дает Бог. ΠΤΈΡΥΓΕΣ _пот. pl. от_ ΠΤΈΡΥΞ (G4420) крыло, ΆΕΤΟΎ _gen. sing. от_ ΆΕΤΌΣ (G105) орел....
AND WHEN THE DRAGON SAW, &C.— When the dragon was thus deposed from the imperial throne, and _cast unto the earth,_ he still continued to persecute the church with equal malice, though not with equal...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ PART III THE TWO SIGNS IN HEAVEN CHAPTER XII _Text (Revelation 11:19; Revelation 12:1-17)_ 19 And there was opened the temple of God that is in heaven; and there was seen in h...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 37 Text Revelation 12:13-17(18) 13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman that brought forth the man child. 14 And there were g...
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the ser...
__ Temple Section-The Male Son the same historical events from two sides, Kings from the human, Chronicles from the divine, so this section reviews the period which has already been presented in its r...
THE WOMAN AND THE MAN-CHILD. THE DRAGON The persecution which the Church had already suffered, and which was about to burst forth again, is the great fact which underlies the whole 'Revelation.' The s...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 12 WAR IN HEAVEN AND ON THE EARTH - REVELATION 12:1-14 THE WOMAN AND THE *DRAGON - REVELATION 12:1-6...
AND TO THE WOMAN... — Better, _And there were given to the woman_ (_the_)_ two wings of the great eagle_ (the definite article is used before “great eagle”), _that she might fly into the wilderness, u...
CHAPTER IX. THE FIRST GREAT ENEMY OF THE CHURCH. Revelation 12:1. THE twelfth chapter of the Revelation of St John has been felt by every commentator to be one more than usually difficult to interpr...
“The two wings of a huge griffon-vulture” (τοῦ either generic article, or a Hebraism, or more likely an allusion to the mythological basis). In traditional mythology the eagle opposed and thwarted the...
SATAN CAST DOWN FROM HEAVEN Revelation 12:7 The spirit of evil waits to destroy each birth of good in our world. As soon as Mary had given birth to our Lord, Herod sought to destroy Him, and this is...
In this and two subsequent Chapter s we have an interpolation in the account of the actual procedure. Two signs are described, a woman and a dragon, between whom is antagonism. Symbolically, it covers...
This description of the deliverance of the righteous reminds us of other faithful ones who were delivered. (Exodus 19:4; Deuteronomy 32:9-14; Isaiah 40:31) Time (1), times (2) and a half time is equal...
(18) And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her (c) place, where she is nourished for a (19) time, and times, and half a time, from the fa...
(13) And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. (14) And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly...
We begin now what may be called the second volume of the Revelation. The prophetic part of the book divides into two portions at this point. This is another land-mark that cannot be despised, if we wo...
Revelation 11:19; Revelation 12:1-17 War A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. --Richard M. Nixon The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants,...
Chapter 12 gives us a brief but all-important summary of the whole course of events, viewed, not in their instruments on earth or the judgment of these, but the divine view of all the principles at wo...
AND TO THE WOMAN WERE GIVEN TWO WINGS OF A GREAT EAGLE,.... By which are meant, not the two testaments, by which she was supported under afflictions, trials, and persecutions, and against Satan and al...
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serp...
_And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth:_ &c. When the dragon was thus deposed from the imperial throne, and _cast unto the earth_, (Revelation 12:13,) he still continued to persecute...
TWO WINGS OF A GREAT EAGLE; representing the assistance granted by God to his church, to escape the rage of her persecutors, or to endure and survive it. THE WILDERNESS; the sojourn of the church in...
The dragon's hatred for the woman:...
AND TO THE WOMAN WERE GIVEN TWO WINGS OF A GREAT EAGLE THAT SHE MIGHT FLY INTO THE WILDERNESS, INTO HER PLACE, WHERE SHE IS NOURISHED FOR A TIME AND TIMES AND A HALF A TIME FROM THE FACE OF THE SERPEN...
A WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN: ISRAEL A great sign now appears in heaven. We thus are looking at things from heaven's viewpoint, and the vision goes back in time to connect the past with the future so...
_ 14 But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serp...
12-17 The church and all her friends might well be called to praise God for deliverance from pagan persecution, though other troubles awaited her. The wilderness is a desolate place, and full of serp...
AND TO THE WOMAN; to the sincerer part of Christians, represented by _the woman,_ REVELATION 12:1, and by _the temple, and altar, and them that worship therein, _ viz. in the oracle where the altar st...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II But they are altogether full of deceit of every kind, apostate inspiration, demoniacal working, and the phantasms of idolatry, and are in reality the predecessors of...
Revelation 12:14 But G2532 woman G1135 given G1325 (G5681) two G1417 wings G4420 great G3173 eagle G105 that
‘And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream, and the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the r...
Revelation 12:13-14. From what has been said it will be evident that with the 13th verse there is no reverting to the point which we had reached at Revelation 12:6. On the contrary, another step is ta...
The third Woe, or the seventh Trumpet, came to an end with chap. 11; and, as the seven Trumpets followed immediately after the seven Seals, we might now have expected that these, in their turn, would...
THERE WERE GIVEN (εδοθησαν). As in Revelation 8:2; Revelation 9:1; Revelation 9:3.THE TWO WINGS OF THE GREAT EAGLE (α δυο πτερυγες του αετου του μεγαλου). Not the eagle of...
Revelation 12:1. _And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:_ This is that woman of whom the pr...
CONTENTS: The woman clothed with the sun (Israel). Satan drawing the stars. The man-child (Christ) caught up to the throne. The arch-angel and his angels fighting Satan. Satan and Israel in the great...
Revelation 12:1. _There appeared a great wonder in heaven;_ that is, in the church or kingdom of heaven below; for the church has long been called a woman, and a fruitful mother, the bride, and the La...
TO FLY TO HER PLACE IN THE DESERT. Symbolic of divine protection. That is, the Lord gives his people such strength that they can be faithful even to the point of death! THREE AND A HALF YEARS. See not...
_Therefore rejoice, ye heavens._ THE DEFEATIBILITY OF THE DEVIL I. Mighty as is the master-fiend of evil, he is not proof against defeats. “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens.” 1. Here is a defeat impli...
_Now is come salvation._ THE HEAVENLY SONG OF VICTORY This is a song of heaven--of that heaven from which the dragon had been cast out. I. The salvation. It is “the salvation” that is here sung of--...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 12:1 Two signs appear in heaven—a WOMAN who gives BIRTH, and a DRAGON intent on destroying her offspring. Twice John sees the dragon defeated. B
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 12:14 TWO WINGS OF THE GREAT EAGLE. A metaphor of the exodus (see Exodus 19:4) becomes an image of God’s care for his church....
And the woman is given the wings of a great eagle to fly into the wilderness where God has a place to protect and nourish her. The Lord provided a way of escape for the persecuted church, which lifted...
THE MISSION OF CHRIST’S CHURCH AND ITS GREAT HINDERER _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ “IN the set of visions now before us, the Apocalypse unveils the spiritual aspects of the conflict, that we may k...
EXPOSITION This chapter commences another series of revelations. Again St. John returns to the beginning, and traces the spiritual history of the Church and the Christian in their warfare with Satan....
_14 AND TO THE WOMAN WERE GIVEN TWO WINGS OF A GREAT EAGLE, THAT SHE MIGHT FLY INTO THE WILDERNESS, INTO HER PLACE, WHERE SHE IS NOURISHED FOR A TIME, AND TIMES, AND HALF A TIME, FROM THE FACE OF THE...
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head [the sun and the moon under her feet, and on her head] a crown of twelve stars...
Daniel 12:7; Daniel 7:25; Deuteronomy 32:11; Deuteronomy 32:12;...
Two wings. The definite article aiJ the should be added : "the two wings." Compare Exodus 19:4; Deuteronomy 32:11; Psalms 36:7. The great eagle. The article does not point to the eagle of ch. 8 13, b...
THE WAR IN HEAVEN Revelation 12:1 _and Revelation 13:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS It almost seems folly to try to speak on two Chapter s in Revelation, at one time. We realize we cannot do either one justi...
And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place — Eagles are the usual symbols of great potentates. So Ezekiel 17:3, by "a great...