And the woman fled into the wilderness: as the Israelites, when they fled from Pharaoh, went into the wilderness; and Joseph, watched upon by Herod, fled into Egypt; so the church did hide herself during the antichristian persecutions, every one shifting for themselves as well as they could. Where she hath a place prepared of God; God provided for them in some more obscure places.
NOTES ON CHAP. XII., BY J. E. C. Verse Revelation 12:6. _AND THE WOMAN FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS_] The account of the woman's flying into the wilderness immediately follows that of her child being ca...
AND THE WOMAN - The woman representing the church. See the notes at Revelation 12:1. FLED - That is, she fled in the manner, and at the time, stated in Revelation 12:14. John here evidently anticipate...
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...
WAR IN HEAVEN. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she bath. place prepared of God, that they should feed her there. thousand two hundred and three score days. And there was war in heaven: M...
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...
Anticipatory, the flight being consequent on the war in heaven (Revelation 12:14). INTO. App-104. WILDERNESS. Compare Ezekiel 20:33. THAT. Greek. _hina_, as Revelation 12:4....
_into the wilderness_ Did she descend to earth? she had appeared in heaven before. See on Revelation 10:9. _where she hath a place_ Most of the historical interpretations that have been advanced for t...
ἜΧΕΙ. So Text. Rec[404] with C 1 and Treg[405] text. All other editors and Treg[406] margin add ἐκεῖ with אAB2P and early vg[407] [404] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. [405] Tregelles....
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...
ΈΦΥΓΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΦΕΎΓΩ (G5343) бежать, ΈΧΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь, ΉΤΟΙΜΑΣΜΈΝΟΝ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΕΤΟΙΜΆΖΩ (G2090) готовить. _Perf. pass_, означает "быть приготовленн...
AND THE WOMAN FLED— Bishop Newton, explaining this and the foregoing verses, observes, that St. John resumes his subject from the beginning, and represents the church, Revelation 12:1 as a _woman,_ an...
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 the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. WOMAN FLED. Mary's flight with Jesus int...
__ 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...
FEED] RV 'nourish.' 7-9. The Christians for whom St. John wrote were beginning to experience persecution: cp. Revelation 2:3; Revelation 2:10; Revelation 2:13;...
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 WOMAN FLED... — Translate, _And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath there a place prepared from God, that there they may nourish her for a thousand two hundred and sixty days._...
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...
ἀπὸ κ. τ. λ., = ὑπό of agent (so Acts 2:22; Acts 4:36, etc., Ps. Sol. 15:6, and a contemporary inscription in Dittenberger's _Sylloge Inscr._ 655 8 συντετηρημένα ἀπὸ βασιλέων καὶ Σεβαστῶν) only here i...
“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...
Since Jesus is now ascended, the woman must here symbolize the church, who would be God's faithful at that time. When fleshly Israel was delivered from Egypt, she went to the wilderness to worship, re...
(12) And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that (13) they should feed her there a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days. (12) The Church of Christ which...
The woman fled into the wilderness. The Church, in the times of persecutions, must be content to serve God in a private manner; but by the divine Providence, such persecutions never lasted with violen...
(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 THE WOMAN FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS,.... Not as soon as she was delivered of her child, which is not reasonable to suppose, and would have been improper if not impracticable; nor indeed was this fl...
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred _and_ threescore days. Ver. 6. _And the woman fled_] viz. After...
FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS; spoken here by way of anticipation. See note to verse Revelation 12:14. God is mindful of his people in all their trials, kindly provides for them all the blessings which he...
THE BATTLE OF MICHAEL WITH THE DRAGON. The woman clothed with the sun:...
AND THE WOMAN FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS, WHERE SHE HATH A PLACE PREPARED OF GOD, THAT THEY SHOULD FEED HER THERE A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THREESCORE DAYS. In spite of the awe which this picture and t...
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...
_ 6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days._ A. The woman (the church) flees into the...
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...
Revelation 12:6 Then G2532 woman G1135 fled G5343 (G5627) into G1519 wilderness G2048 where G3699 has G2192 ...
‘And the woman fled into the wilderness where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her for one thousand, two hundred and sixty days.' This verse is put in as a quick note to e...
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...
Revelation 12:6. AND THE WOMAN FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS, WHERE SHE HATH A PLACE PREPARED OF GOD, THAT THEY MAY NOURISH HER THERE A THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED, AND THREESCORE DAYS. The fortunes of the woman...
FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS (εφυγεν εις την ερημον). Second aorist active indicative of φευγω. Here, of course, not Mary, but "the ideal woman" (God's people) of the preceding verses, who fled under pe...
A THOUSAND (Revelation 11:2); (Revelation 11:3); (Revelation 13:5); (Daniel 9:27); ...
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...
THE WOMAN FLED TO THE DESERT. Symbolic of the fact that Satan cannot destroy God's people 1,260 DAYS. See note on Revelation 11:2....
_The woman fled into the wilderness._ THE EMBLEM OF THE CHURCH MILITANT “And the woman,” there is the frailty of her nature; “fled,” there is the uncertainty of her state; “into the wilderness,” the...
_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 12:1 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 12:6 The child’s mother FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS. This symbolizes the church’s complete dependence on God. He protects them from the dragon’s rage (vv....
"And the woman fled into the wilderness where she hath a place prepared of God." Since the Devil could not destroy Jesus Christ he could still persecute the church. This indicates the condition which...
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....
_6 AND THE WOMAN FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS, WHERE SHE HATH A PLACE PREPARED OF GOD, THAT THEY SHOULD FEED HER THERE A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THREESCORE DAYS._ We have already defined that the woman...
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 17:3; 1 Kings 17:9; 1 Kings 19:4; Matthew 4:11; Revelat
Of God [α π ο τ ο υ θ ε ο υ]. Lit., from God, the preposition marking the source from which the preparation came. For a similar use, see James 1:13, "tempted of God....
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 the woman fled into the wilderness — This wilderness is undoubtedly on earth, where the woman also herself is now supposed to be. It betokens that part of the earth where, after having brought for...