CONTENTS
This Chapter opens with the History of the Church, from the Beginning. Here is represented by Figure, that Church, brought forth, and immediately persecuted. A Dragon stands ready to devour. She is preserved in the Wilderness. To these follow an Account of War in Heaven, with the Consequences.
CHAPTER XII. _The woman clothed with the sun, and in travail_, 1, 2. _The great red dragon waiting to devour the child as soon as_ _born_, 3, 4. _The woman is delivered of a son, who is caught up...
AND THERE APPEARED A GREAT WONDER IN HEAVEN - In that heavenly world thus disclosed, in the very presence of God, he saw the impressive and remarkable symbol which he proceeds to describe. The word “w...
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...
AND... HEAVEN. And. great sign was seen in heaven. APPEARED. was seen. App-133. WONDER. App-176. What follows is. _sign._ HEAVEN. See Revelation 3:12. WOMAN. i.e. Israel. See John 16:21. TWELVE ST...
The Woman with the Man-Child. Chap. 12 Revelation 12:1-6 1. _a great wonder_ Should be SIGN, as in the margin, both here and in Revelation 12:3. _a woman_ Who is this? The two answers most commonly g...
ΣΗΜΕΙ͂ΟΝ. A. V[437] translates “a wonder” here and in Revelation 12:3, because σημεῖον in N.T. has a quasi-technical sense; R. V[438] “a sign.” [437] Authorised Version. [438] Revised Version. ΓΥΝΉ....
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...
Revelation 11:15-19; Revelation 12:7-12. THE SEVENTH TRUMPET...
_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...
ΏΦΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть; _pass._ быть видным, появляться, ΠΕΡΙΒΕΒΛΗΜΈΝΗ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΠΕΡΙΒΆΛΛΩ (G4016) набрасывать, одевать; _pass._ облачаться. ΣΕΛΉΝΗ (G4582) луна,...
_REVELATION 12:1_.— We come now to a second representation of the same third period of prophesy; that is, a state of the church and world, in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, or while the _...
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 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 episode (Revelation 12:1; Revelation 13:1;...
__ 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 THERE APPEARED... — Better, _And a great sign was seen in the heaven._ The word _sign_ is preferable to “wonder,” both in this verse and in Revelation 12:3. It is the same word which is rendered s...
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 (1) there appeared a great wonder in heaven; (2) a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: (1) Until now it has been the general prophec...
A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet. By this woman, interpreters commonly understand the Church of Christ, shining with the light of faith, under the protection of the sun of jus...
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 THERE APPEARED A GREAT WONDER IN HEAVEN,.... This vision begins a new account of things, and represents the church in the apostles' times, and purer ages of Christianity, and under the Heathen and...
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: Ver. 1. _And there appeared_] This and the two next...
_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...
With the seventh trumpet the mystery of God was to be finished. Chapter Revelation 10:7. This has already sounded, and "the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Chris...
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;...
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...
INTRODUCTION As Ray Summers observes, “Many times it appears that the enemy has the upper hand and will win, but all the time we know that victory is ours because we have seen the headline announcing...
WONDER: Or, sign...
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 CHAPTER 12 REVELATION 12:1,2 A woman clothed with the sun travaileth, REVELATION 12:3,4 A great red dragon standeth ready to devottr her child, REVELATION 12:5,6 She is deliv
Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the saints of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of...
Revelation 12:1 Now G2532 great G3173 sign G4592 appeared G3700 (G5681) in G1722 heaven G3772 woman G1135 clot
THE FOURTH VISION. THE WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN AND THE BEASTS. The Woman Clothed With the Sun and the Great Red Monster (Revelation 12:1 to Revelation 13:1 a). ‘And a great sign was seen in heaven...
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 12:1. AND THERE APPEARED A GREAT SIGN IN HEAVEN. The ‘sign' consists of three particulars, and the first of these is again divided into three parts, mention of which occupies the remainder...
A GREAT SIGN (σημειον μεγα). The first of the visions to be so described (Revelation 13:3; Revelation 15:1), and it is introduced by ωφθη as in Revelation 11:19;...
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 A GREAT MYSTERIOUS SIGHT APPEARED IN THE SKY. _In the vision,_ the woman is symbolic of God's people in both the Old and New testaments. At the right time, Jesus is born of a human mother and liv...
_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....
CHAPTER 12 - THE DRAGON AND THE MAN CHILD This is another informational chapter from the little book that John digested. This information is about Israel and her Messiah and Satan’s attempt to stop t...
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...
2 Chronicles 32:31; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Acts 2:19; Ephesians 5:25;...
Wonder [σ η μ ε ι ο ν]. Better, as Rev., sign. See on Matthew 24:24. Clothed [π ε ρ ι β ε β λ η μ ε ν η]. Rev., better, arrayed. See on ch. Revelation 3:5. The moon under her feet. See Song of Solomon...
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 a great sign was seen in heaven — Not only by St. John, but many heavenly spectators represented in the vision. A sign means something that has an uncommon appearance, and from which we infer that...
Observe here, 1. That by the woman we are to understand the Christian church in her militant state, called. woman, in regard of her weakness and dependency; as also in regard of her fruitfulness, she...