Jesus Christ. Omit Christ.
The best texts add to this chapter the opening words of ch. 13 (A. V.), "And I stood upon the sand of the sea." Some, however, change ejstaqhn I stood, to ejstaqh he stood, referring to the dragon. So Rev.
NOTES ON CHAP. XII., BY J. E. C. Verse Revelation 12:17. _AND THE DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN_] The heathen party, foiled in their subtle attempt to destroy Christianity, were greatly enraged, a...
AND THE DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN - This wrath had been vented by his persecuting her Revelation 12:13; by his pursuing her; and by his pouring out the flood of water to sweep her away Revelatio...
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...
John, in the same chapter, beholds another conflict. The defeated dragon changes the scene of combat. On earth he wages. war of "persecution" which results in the exile of the woman to the wilderness...
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...
WENT. went away, as in John 11:46. REMNANT. App-124. SEED. Believers, Jew and Gentile, who are seen Revelation 7:9. AND HAVE. holding. JESUS. App-98. CHRIST. The texts omit. They add here the firs...
_the woman … the remnant of her seed_ Genesis 3:15. The sense must be, that the Devil attempts to frustrate God's counsels, not now by attacking the old Israel, but the new "Israel of God." Titus, we...
ἘΠῚ ΤΗ͂Ι ΓΥΝΑΙΚΊ … ΜΕΤᾺ ΤΩ͂Ν ΛΟΙΠΩ͂Ν ΤΟΥ͂ ΣΠΈΡΜΑΤΟΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΗ͂Σ. We have not means for interpreting this description in detail. All we can say certainly is, that it describes the providential foiling of S...
THE DELIVERANCE OF THE WOMAN...
_WAR ON THE EARTH REVELATION 12:13-17:_ The war on earth had to do with the persecution of the church by man and the protection of the church by God. God's people were given strength--two wings of the...
ΏΡΓΊΣΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΟΡΓΊΖΩ (G3710) сердить. Inch, _aor._, "начинать сердиться". ΆΠΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G565) выходить, уходить, уезжать, ΠΟΙΉΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G...
AND WHEN THE DRAGON SAW, &C.— When the dragon was thus deposed from the imperial throne, and _cast unto the earth,_ he still continued to persecute the church with equal malice, though not with equal...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 37 Text Revelation 12:13-17(18) 13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman that brought forth the man child. 14 And there were g...
_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 dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. WROTH WITH - `at.' WENT -...
__ 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...
WAS] RV 'waxed.' SEED] cp. Galatians 4:26. HAVE] RV 'hold.'...
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 DRAGON... — Translate, _And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and departed_ (not merely “went,” but _departed,_ as one baffled in his attempt to carry the woman away by the river) _to make...
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 baffled adversary now widens his sphere of operations. τ. λ. an apocalyptic term = the _derelicti_ or _relicti_ of 4 Esdras (_cf._ Volz, 319). These represent to the Christian editor the scattered...
SATAN CAST DOWN FROM HEAVEN Revelation 12:7 The spirit of evil waits to destroy each birth of good in our world. As soon as Mary had given birth to our Lord, Herod sought to destroy Him, and this is...
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...
The rest of the woman's seed would be individual Christians. We need to beware of Satan because he is like a lion looking for the weak, young or stray. (1 Peter 5:8)...
(22) And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (22) Being set on fire by t...
(13) And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. (14) And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly...
REFLECTIONS READER! if the Church appeared as a great wonder in heaven, when beheld clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of stars, shall not you and I wonder as w...
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 DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN,.... The devil was very angry with the church, because he could not destroy her by the Arian persecution he had raised; and because he could not carry her away...
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Ver. 17. _Was wroth with the wo...
_And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth:_ &c. When the dragon was thus deposed from the imperial throne, and _cast unto the earth_, (Revelation 12:13,) he still continued to persecute...
THE REMNANT OF HER SEED; representing those who remained faithful to the truth of the gospel. The manner in which he made war upon them is immediately set forth in the following chapter. Sin unrestrai...
AND THE DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN, AND WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF HER SEED, WHICH KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST. The narrative is here continued w...
The dragon's hatred for the woman:...
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...
_ 17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ._ A. Satan is angry. He...
12-17 The church and all her friends might well be called to praise God for deliverance from pagan persecution, though other troubles awaited her. The wilderness is a desolate place, and full of serp...
AND THE DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN: the devil hath been defeated in two designs against the whole church; he could not wholly root it out by the ten persecutions under the Roman emperors, nor by...
Revelation 12:17 And G2532 dragon G1404 enraged G3710 (G5681) with G1909 woman G1135 and G2532 went G565 ...
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 12:17, and chap. Revelation 13:1 a. Defeated in his purpose the dragon breaks forth into a paroxysm of rage. The important expression in this verse, THE REST OF HER SEED, is difficult, and...
WAXED WROTH (ωργισθη). First aorist (ingressive) passive indicative of οργιζομα, "became angry."WITH THE WOMAN (επ τη γυναικ). "At the woman," "because of the woman."WENT AWAY (απηλθεν). "Went 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...
AGAINST THE REST OF HER DESCENDANTS. Satan makes his attack against individual Christians, hoping to "pick them off one by one." See note on Acts 6:13-14. Christians are to know that during this Gospe...
_Therefore rejoice, ye heavens._ THE DEFEATIBILITY OF THE DEVIL I. Mighty as is the master-fiend of evil, he is not proof against defeats. “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens.” 1. Here is a defeat impli...
_Now is come salvation._ THE HEAVENLY SONG OF VICTORY This is a song of heaven--of that heaven from which the dragon had been cast out. I. The salvation. It is “the salvation” that is here sung of--...
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 12:17 The dragon fails to destroy the Messiah (see vv. Revelation 12:4) and his mother (that is, Israel; see note on vv. 1–2
And the woman is given the wings of a great eagle to fly into the wilderness where God has a place to protect and nourish her. The Lord provided a way of escape for the persecuted church, which lifted...
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....
_17 AND THE DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN, AND WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF HER SEED, WHICH KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST._ Satan and his angels canno...
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 Corinthians 2:1; 1 John 5:10; 1 John 5:2; 1 Peter 5:8; Daniel 11:36;...
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...