2. And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
First, the King must be born and must take possession of His kingdom. The Child from Israel that pained to be delivered was the promised Messiah that we know as Jesus.
NOTES ON CHAP. XII., BY J. E. C. Verse Revelation 12:2. _AND SHE BEING WITH CHILD CRIED, TRAVAILING IN BIRTH_, c.] This, when taken in connection with the following verses, is a striking figure of t...
AND SHE BEING WITH CHILD CRIED, TRAVAILING IN BIRTH ... - That is, there would be something which would be properly represented by a woman in such circumstances. The question now is, what is referred...
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 book of Revelation divides itself into two parts. There are two series of visions, one giving the fate of the world and ending with chapter 11:18; the other beginning with the next verse and exten...
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...
CRIED. crieth out. TRAVAILING, &C. Greek. _odino._ Only here and Galatians 1:4; Galatians 1:19, Gal 1:27. See Micah 5:3. PAINED. Literally tormented. See...
_and she … pained to be delivered_ There is probably a reminiscence of Genesis 3:16, and perhaps of St John 16:21, as well as of Micah 4:10, to which the main reference is. Cf. also St...
ἜΧΟΥΣΑ. Lach[397] Tisch[398] W. H[399] (text) and Weiss add καὶ with אC Primas[400] and early vg[401] [397] Lachmann’s larger edition. [398] Tischendorf: eighth edition; where the text aud notes dif...
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...
_A WOMAN AND A GREAT RED DRAGON REVELATION 12:1-3:_ Who is this woman?_ _ The woman is the true Israel of God. "Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou...
ΈΧΟΥΣΑ _praes. act. part. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь, ΈΝ ΓΑΣΤΡΪ́ ΈΧΟΥΣΑ иметь что-л. в животе; то есть быть беременной, ΚΡΆΖΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΚΡΆΖΩ (G2896) кричать, вскрикивать громким голосом. Оч...
AND SHE BEING WITH CHILD CRIED, &C.— _And she crieth in sorrow and travail, having a child to bring forth._ The metaphor of a mother blessed with a fair posterity, is very proper to represent the publ...
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 being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. PAINED - `tormented' [ basanizomenee (G928)]. DeBurgh explains this, the bringing in of the first-begotten into the...
__ 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... — Better, _And being with child, she crieth, travailing, and tormented to bring forth._ All life dawns in anguish, according to the ancient fiat (Genesis 3:16); but this is not all. There i...
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...
ἐν τ. οὐ. almost = “in the sky” (_cf._ Revelation 12:4.). A Greek touch: _cf._ Hom. _Iliad_, ii. 308, ἔνθʼ ἐφάνη μέγα σῆμα · δράκων ἐπὶ νῶτα δαφοινός (_i.e._ fiery-red). Here as elsewhere mythological...
“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...
This woman apparently stands for the faithful remnant of God's people in Israel. (Micah 4:10-13; Micah 5:1-3) Since she represents the faithful, it is appropriate that faithful Christians be viewed as...
And (3) she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. (3) For this is the barren woman who had not given birth; (Isaiah 45:1; Galatians 4:27). She cried out with good ca...
_ With child, &c., to signify that the Church, even in the time of persecutions, brought forth children to Christ. (Witham) --- It likewise signifies the difficulties which obstructed the first propag...
(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 BEING BIG WITH CHILD,.... Which may be expressive of the fruitfulness of the church in bearing and bringing forth many souls to Christ, and which were very numerous in this period of time, whe...
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. Ver. 2. _And she being with child_] And so soon smelt out by the bears of the world. _Ursa praegnantem mulierem non so...
_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...
TRAVAILING IN BIRTH; a symbol of the fruitfulness of the church in times of great trial. Compare Isaiah 54:1; Isaiah 66:8....
AND SHE, BEING WITH CHILD, CRIED, TRAVAILING IN BIRTH, AND PAINED TO BE DELIVERED....
THE BATTLE OF MICHAEL WITH THE DRAGON. The woman clothed with the sun:...
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...
_ 2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth._ A. She, the woman, gave birth to a child. B. Most commentators agree that the child is Jesus. Satan will do whatever he...
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...
BEING WITH CHILD; not with Christ considered personally, who was long before brought forth by the virgin Mary, but with the truth, and gospel of Christ, or with Christ mystical. CRIED; desiring to bri...
Revelation 12:2 Then G2532 being G2192 (G5723) with G1722 child G1064 out G2896 (G5719) labor G5605 ...
‘And she was with child and cries out, travailing in birth and in pain to be delivered.' This description of Israel in birth pains comes from Isaiah 66:8; Micah 4:9. God has destined his people to suf...
Revelation 12:2. AND SHE WAS WITH CHILD. These words form the second particular of the vision; while the third represents her as at that moment suffering the pangs of childbirth, AND THE CRIETH OUT, T...
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...
AND SHE WAS WITH CHILD (κα εν γαστρ εχουσα). Perhaps εστιν to be supplied or the participle used as a finite verb as in Revelation 10:2. This is the technical idiom for pregnancy as in Matthew 1:18;...
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...
_A great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun._ THE SIGN OF THE WOMAN IN HEAVEN Let us consider the scene. There is a woman clothed with the sun, crowned with stars, and having the moon und...
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
There appears in the prophet's vision a wonderful woman; clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. Who is this woman? We will understand that better...
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....
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...
Galatians 4:19; Galatians 4:27; Isaiah 53:11; Isaiah 54:1; Isaiah 66:7
Travailing in birth [ω δ ι ν ο υ σ α]. See on sorrows, Mark 13:9, and pains, Acts 2:24. In pain [β α σ α ν ι ζ ο μ ε ν η]. Lit., being tormented. See on ch. Revelation 11:10, and references. For the i...
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 being with child she crieth, travailing in birth — The very pain, without any outward opposition, would constrain a woman in travail to cry out. These cries, throes, and pains to be delivered, wer...
The church, typified by. woman, was described in the former verse by her rare perfections, in this verse by her weak and perilous condition; she cries like. woman in travail or delivery, to God in her...