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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 12:6

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; Revelation 3:4, note, 10. Yet their victory is assured. This is symbolically expressed under the figure of a war in heaven between good and evil angels (Revelation 12:7) in which Satan and his host are conquered and cast down from heaven (Revelation 12:8.). The figure is derived from Jewish apocalyptic ideas, but the meaning for Christians is that in the Death and Resurrection and Ascension of Christ, Satan was already essentially conquered: cp. John 12:31.; John 16:33.

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