Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Revelation 12:5
And she brought forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up unto God and to His throne.
And she brought forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up unto God and to His throne.
Verse Revelation 12:5. _AND HER CHILD WAS CAUGHT UP UNTO GOD, AND_ TO _HIS_ _THRONE__._] In _Yalcut Rubeni_ are these words: "Rachael, the niece of Methusala, was pregnant, and ready to be delivered...
AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH A MAN CHILD - Representing, according to the view above taken, the church in its increase and prosperity - as if a child were born that was to rule over all nations. See the note...
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 MAN CHILD. "And she brought forth. man child, who was to rule all nations with. rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne."--12:5. If the reader will turn to the sevent...
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...
MAN CHILD. a son (App-108.). male (as Luke 2:23). WAS. is about. NATIONS. the nations. Compare Psalms 2:9. ROD. See Revelation 2:27. UP. away. UNTO. App-104. GOD.
_a man child_ Lit. A SON, A MALE, the latter word being neuter. _who was to rule_ Lit. WHO IS TO RULE. This designation of the Son proves beyond question who He is, see Revelation 2:27 as proving, if...
ἜΤΕΚΕΝ ΥἹΌΝ, ἌΡΣΕΝ with AC; cf. Isaiah 66:7 ἐξέφυγε καὶ ἔτεκεν ἄρσεν; Text. Rec[402] reads ἔτ. νἱὸν ἄρρενα with אB21; P has ἄρσενα; Victorin. _peperit filium_, Primas[403] _peperit masculum_. [402] R...
Revelation 11:15-19; Revelation 12:7-12. THE SEVENTH TRUMPET...
Revelation 12:1-6. THE WOMAN WITH THE MAN-CHILD This Vision is clearly not to be closely connected with that of the Witnesses: not only is it separated by the arrangement of the prophecies Revelation...
_THE CHILD AND THE DRAGON REVELATION 12:4-6:_ The great red dragon was so cunning that at his fall he took with him a third of the angels of heaven. He even did his best to destroy the child that was...
ΈΤΕΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΤΊΚΤΩ (G5088) рождать, ΆΡΣΕΝ (G730) _acc. sing._ мальчик, младенец мужского пола, ΜΈΛΛΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΜΈΛΛΩ (G3195) собираться, с _inf._ выражает немедленное буду...
AND HER CHILD WAS CAUGHT UP, &C.— Grotius, with great probability, thinks that these expressions allude to the preservation of Joash, in the time of Athaliah's usurpation, when she put to death all th...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 35 Text Revelation 12:1-6 And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars; 2 and s...
_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...
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. MAN-CHILD - `a son, a male.' Compare notes, Revelation 1...
__ 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 SHE BROUGHT FORTH... — Translate, _And she brought forth a man child, who is to shepherd all the nations with_ (it is, literally, _in) a rod of iron._ There can be no doubt that this man child is...
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...
In accordance with the rabbinic notion which withdrew messiah for a time, the infant, like a second Moses, is caught up out of harm's way. He has no career on earth at all. This is intelligible enough...
“HE SHALL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER” Revelation 11:14; Revelation 12:1 The kingdom is even now Christ's, but it is hidden, even as He is. One day it will be manifested. For a long time David was the an...
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...
Verse 9 tells us the dragon is Satan. The seven heads could represent wisdom, vitality or, as in the case of the woman in scarlet, mountains. (Revelation 17:9) The ten horns could be power of kings. ...
(10) And she brought forth a man (11) child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and [to] his throne. (10) The second history of this Church delivered...
A man child; that is, a masculine race of Christians, willing to confess the name of the Lord, and to fight his battles; who, through the merits of Jesus Christ, should triumph over all the attempts o...
(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: (2) And she being with child cried, travailing in...
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 SHE BROUGHT FORTH A MAN CHILD,.... Not Christ, literally and personally considered, or Christ in his human nature, as made of a woman, and born of a virgin, which was a fact that had been years ag...
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and _to_ his throne. Ver. 5. _And she brought forth a man child_] Constantine,...
_And there appeared a woman clothed with the sun_ “It was a well-known custom,” says Lowman, “at the time of this prophecy, to represent the several virtues, and public societies, by the figure of a w...
A MAN - CHILD; this man-child is Christ, the seed of the mystic woman, considered as the head and representative of all his disciples. It includes, therefore, not only him, but all who are through fai...
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...
_ 5 She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne._ A. Satan knew that Christ was coming. He tried to stop His birth. B. Thi...
1-6 The church, under the emblem of a woman, the mother of believers, was seen by the apostle in vision, in heaven. She was clothed with the sun, justified, sanctified, and shining by union with Chri...
By this MAN-CHILD some understand Constantine the Great; others understand Christ mystical, or many children brought forth unto God. As the Jews multiplied, do Pharaoh what he could to destroy them, s...
Revelation 12:5 G2532 bore G5088 (G5627) male G730 Child G5207 who G3739 was G3195 (G5719) rule...
Revelation 12:5. The birth takes place. The woman is DELIVERED OF A SON, OF MAN'S SEX. The last expression is remarkable. In the Authorised Version we read simply of ‘a man child,' in the Revised of ‘...
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...
SHE WAS DELIVERED OF A SON (ετεκεν υιον). Literally, "she bore a son" (second aorist active indicative of τικτω).A MAN CHILD (αρσεν). So A C with the neuter τεκνον or παιδιον in mind, as often in...
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...
THEN THE WOMAN GAVE BIRTH. The whole earthly life of Jesus. WHO WILL RULE. Compare Luke 19:27. BUT THE CHILD WAS SNATCHED AWAY. Christ being taken up to heaven to sit on his throne. See Revelation 5:7...
_She brought forth a man child._ THE CHURCH PROTECTED 1. The godly of the Christian Church brought forth by the pains of the apostles and their successors, are called but one man child: which teaches...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 12:5 The ROD OF IRON (also Revelation 2:27;...
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 she brought forth a man child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron, and her child was caught up unto God and to his throne." It is at once recognized who this child was. Who is to rule...
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....
_5 AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH A MAN CHILD, WHO WAS TO RULE ALL NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON: AND HER CHILD WAS CAUGHT UP UNTO GOD, AND TO HIS THRONE._ Only one person will rule the world with a rod of iron...
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...
Isaiah 7:14; Jeremiah 31:22; Micah 5:3; Mark 16:19; Matthew 1:25;...
A man - child [υ ι ο ν α ρ ρ ε ν α]. Lit., a son, a male. The correct reading is arsen, the neuter, not agreeing with the masculine individual [υ ι ο ν σ ο ν] but with the neuter of the genus. The obj...
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 she brought forth a man child — Even Christ, considered not in his person, but in his kingdom. In the ninth age, many nations with their princes were added to the Christian church. Who was to rule...