George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Revelation 12:16
And the earth helped the woman. A prince of the earth, Constantine, came to the succour of the Church, and caused the persecution to cease.
And the earth helped the woman. A prince of the earth, Constantine, came to the succour of the Church, and caused the persecution to cease.
NOTES ON CHAP. XII., BY J. E. C. Verse Revelation 12:16. _THE EARTH HELPED THE WOMAN_] "Nothing, and indeed," as Bishop Newton excellently observes, "was more likely to produce the ruin and utter su...
AND THE EARTH HELPED THE WOMAN - The earth seemed to sympathize with the woman in her persecutions, and to interpose to save her. The meaning is, that a state of things would exist in regard to the ch...
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...
John, in the same chapter, beholds another conflict. The defeated dragon changes the scene of combat. On earth he wages. war of "persecution" which results in the exile of the woman to the wilderness...
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...
OPENED, &C. See Numbers 16:30. SWALLOWED UP. Greek. _katapino._ Occurs seven times in N.T. See 1 Corinthians 15:54. Compare Isaiah 59:19....
We have not means for interpreting this description in detail. All we can say certainly is, that it describes the providential foiling of Satanic attempts at the destruction of Israel. Perhaps the mos...
15, 16. Genesis 3:15. The sense must be, that the Devil attempts to frustrate God’s counsels, not now by attacking the old Israel, but the new “Israel of God.” Titus, we are told, resolved to destroy...
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...
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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 THE EARTH HELPED THE WOMAN, AND THE EARTH OPENED HER MOUTH, AND SWALLOWED UP THE FLOOD WHICH THE DRAGON CAST OUT OF HIS MOUTH._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
__ 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...
FLOOD] RV 'river.'...
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 THE EARTH... — Translate, _And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and drank up the river, &c._ This is generally understood of some earthly power which is raised up to pro...
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 dragon is unexpectedly baffled by the earth, as the woman's ally, which swallows the persecutors like Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (Numbers 16:30-32). This enigmatic detail has not yet been parallele...
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...
Satan now tries to overthrow the faithful with a flood of evil. Since it comes out of his mouth, it may be this describes lies he uses to defeat the righteous. (Compare Genesis 3:1-5; John 8:44) The e...
(21) And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. (21) That is, there was offered in their place other Jews, to t...
(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 THE EARTH HELPED THE WOMAN,.... By opening itself, and taking in what the serpent cast out, so that it could not reach the woman, and annoy her, as follows: AND THE EARTH OPENED HER MOUTH; as it...
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. Ver. 16. _And the earth helped the woman_] That is, the multitude of...
_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...
THE EARTH HELPED THE WOMAN; these pagan hosts, instead of destroying God's church, in many ways befriended her. They settled down in the regions conquered by them and embraced Christianity....
The dragon's hatred for the woman:...
AND THE EARTH HELPED THE WOMAN, AND THE EARTH OPENED HER MOUTH, AND SWALLOWED UP THE FLOOD WHICH THE DRAGON CAST OUT OF HIS MOUTH....
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...
_ 16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth._ A. In some way the earth (dwelling place of Satan) is hel...
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 THE EARTH HELPED THE WOMAN: there are divers notions here of _the earth; _ to me theirs seemeth most probable, who understand by _the earth_ the Goths and Vandals, &c., who, Anno 410, invaded the...
Revelation 12:16 But G2532 earth G1093 helped G997 (G5656) woman G1135 and G2532 earth G1093 opened G455 ...
Revelation 12:15-16. The imagery employed in these verses is difficult. It is in all probability taken from the passage of Israel across the Red Sea and the river Jordan into the Promised Land. This r...
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...
HELPED THE WOMAN (εβοηθησεν τη γυναικ). First aorist active indicative of βοηθεω, old verb with the dative as in Hebrews 2:18, which see. Herodotus tells of the Lycus disappearing underground near...
Revelation 12:16 Science and the Church. The "woman" mentioned here is a symbol of the New Testament Church. She is represented as pursued by the devil, who ejects from his mouth a river of water aft...
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...
BUT THE EARTH HELPED THE WOMAN. Symbolic of the great masses of people. Even though Satan is able to use them against the church, they also _defeat_ Satan's purpose by "swallowing up" the "water" from...
_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--...
_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...
_The earth helped the woman._ THE HELP OF THE EARTH I. Some illustrations of this help. How the earth has rendered help to God’s people sometimes by-- 1. Its wide extent. The primeval going forth 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
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....
_15 AND THE SERPENT CAST OUT OF HIS MOUTH WATER AS A FLOOD AFTER THE WOMAN, THAT HE MIGHT CAUSE HER TO BE CARRIED AWAY OF THE FLOOD._ _ 16 AND THE EARTH HELPED THE WOMAN, AND THE EARTH OPENED HER M...
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...
1 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 8:9; Exodus 12:35; Exodus 12:36...
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...