With his tall. Symbolic of the great power this dragon has! [See Ephesians 2:1-3; Ephesians 6:10-13.] In order to eat her child. Matthew 2 helps us understand this. Satan, acting through Herod, has the male children of the Bethlehem area, two years old and under, killed. But Christ lives on, in Egypt. [Satan tries in every generation to destroy God's people, but he is unable to do it!]
NOTES ON CHAP. XII., BY J. E. C. Verse Revelation 12:4. _AND HIS TAIL DREW THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN_] It is not unusual in Scripture, as Dr. Mitchell observes, to call the hindmost of a...
AND HIS TAIL DREW THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN - The word rendered “drew” - συρω surō - means to “draw, drag, haul.” Prof. Stuart renders it “drew along”; and explains it as meaning that “th...
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...
"And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold. great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,...
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 HIS, &C. Refers to Satan's first rebellion and to those who followed him. DREW. draggeth. See John 21:8. DID. Read "he". EARTH. App-129. STOOD. is standing. Perf. tense, indicating abiding act...
_And his tail drew_ The great serpent crawls along the vault of the sky, and the wrigglings of his tail remove the stars from their places. "_Drew_" is literally DRAWETH. _stood_ Perhaps more accurat...
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...
ΚΑῚ Ἡ ΟΥ̓ΡᾺ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ΣΎΡΕΙ. Is σύρει part of the description of the dragon, while ἔβαλεν marks an event? If so, we should understand that the great serpent coils himself over a third of the sky, and se...
_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...
ΟΎΡΆ (G3769) хвост, ΣΎΡΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΎΡΩ (G4951) тащить, мести, ΈΒΑΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΒΆΛΛΩ (G906) бросать, ΈΣΤΗΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΪΣΤΗΜΙ (G4739) стоять. ΜΕΛΛΟΎΣΗΣ _praes. a...
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 his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it w...
__ 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...
TAIL, etc.] i.e. he was huge and mighty: cp. Daniel 8:10....
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 HIS TAIL... — Translate, _And his tail drags_ (or_, sweeps) away the third part of the stars of the heaven, and casts them to the earth._ The stars are the light- bearers, the illustrious of earth...
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 symbolism is a reminiscence of an ætiological myth in astrology (_cf._ the _cauda_ of the constellation Scorpio) and of the primitive view which regarded the dark cloud as a snake enfolding the lu...
“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. ...
(7) And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon (8) stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for (9) to devour her child as s...
His tail drew the third part of the stars: a great part of mankind. This is spoken with an allusion to the fall of Lucifer from heaven, with the rebellious angels, driven from thence by St. Michael. ...
(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 HIS TAIL DREW THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN, AND DID CAST THEM TO THE EARTH,.... So Solinus e speaks of dragons that have power not only in their teeth, but in their tails, and do more hur...
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it wa...
_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...
DREW THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN; probably representing the subjection of the kings and rulers of a large part of the world to the Roman power. The enmity between the seed of the woman and t...
THE BATTLE OF MICHAEL WITH THE DRAGON. The woman clothed with the sun:...
AND HIS TAIL DREW THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN AND DID CAST THEM TO THE EARTH; AND THE DRAGON STOOD BEFORE THE WOMAN WHICH WAS READY TO BE DELIVERED FOR TO DEVOUR HER CHILD AS SOON AS IT WAS...
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...
_ 4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born._ A. The gr...
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...
The TAIL of the RED DRAGON signifies his followers, his civil and military officers, whosoever were by him employed to execute his commands. By THE STARS, here, are either meant the ministers of the C...
Revelation 12:4 G2532 His G846 tail G3769 drew G4951 (G5719) third G5154 stars G792 heaven G3772 and...
‘And his tail draws the third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth.' In Daniel 8:10 it was said of Antiochus Epiphanes, a ruler of Syria in 2nd century BC, that ‘some of the host of...
Revelation 12:4. HIS TAIL DRAWETH THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN, AND DID CAST THEM TO THE EARTH. The second particular thus mentioned of the dragon has relation to what he does, and is in cont...
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...
HIS TAIL (η ουρα αυτου). See Revelation 9:10; Revelation 9:19.DRAWETH (συρε). Present active indicative of συρω, old verb, to drag, here alone in the Apocalypse, but see John 21:8.The third part o...
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 red dragon._ THE GREAT WAR A contest here is waging which enlists and engages the mightiest powers that exist. It is the great and far-reaching conflict between good and evil, between truth...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 12:4 HIS TAIL SWEPT DOWN A THIRD OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN. Evil spirits (demons) who are Satan’s allies share his defeat by God’s forces (vv....
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
Vs. 3, 4 And there appeared a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads. His tail drew the third part of the stars, and did cast them to the earth, and the drag...
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....
_4 AND HIS TAIL DREW THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN, AND DID CAST THEM TO THE EARTH: AND THE DRAGON STOOD BEFORE THE WOMAN WHICH WAS READY TO BE DELIVERED, FOR TO DEVOUR HER CHILD AS SOON AS I...
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 Peter 5:8; Daniel 8:9; Exodus 1:16; John 8:44; Matthew 2:3;...
:Revelation 12 _4 Revelation 12 :4Of the stars of heaven. Some expositors find an allusion to the fallen angels (Jude 1:6). Did cast them to the earth. Compare Da
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 his tail — His falsehood and subtilty. Draweth — As a train. The third part — A very large number. Of the stars of heaven — The Christians and their teachers, who before sat in heavenly places wit...
That is, "Herod watched to destroy Christ as soon as he was born, Matthew 2:1-12 so while the church was endeavouring to propagate Christianity and make converts to Christ, the dragon watched, intendi...