NOTES ON CHAP. XII., BY J. E. C.
Verse Revelation 12:8. And prevailed not] Against the cause of Christianity.
Neither was their place found any more in heaven.] The advocates of the heathen idolatry were prevented from having any farther share in the government of the empire. The wonderful success of Constantine over all his enemies, and his final triumph over Licinius, correspond exactly to the symbolical language in this verse.
AND PREVAILED NOT - Satan and his angels failed in their purpose. NEITHER WAS THEIR PLACE FOUND ANY MORE IN HEAVEN - They were cast out, and were seen there no more. The idea is, that they were defea...
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...
WAR IN HEAVEN. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she bath. place prepared of God, that they should feed her there. thousand two hundred and three score days. And there was war in heaven: M...
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...
PREVAILED. Greek. _ischuo,_ as Acts 19:16; Acts 19:20. Only here in Rev. Compare App-172. NEITHER. Greek. _oude._ MORE. First occurance: Matthew 5:13 (thenceforth)....
ἼΣΧΥΣΑΝ. A and many cursives have ἴσχυσεν, and many cursives αὐτῷ for αὐτῶν....
THE WAR IN HEAVEN Here it is possible that a part of the vision of the Seven Trumpets has been transposed into the vision of the Woman and the Dragon, for it certainly seems as if the coming down of t...
Revelation 11:15-19; Revelation 12:7-12. THE SEVENTH TRUMPET...
_WAR IN HEAVEN REVELATION 12:7-12:_ Michael and his angels fought against the Devil and his angels. The Devil had once been in heaven in the presence of God. (Job 1:1-22; Job 2:1-13) Now there is joy...
ΪΣΧΥΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΙΣΧΎΩ (G2480) быть сильным, быть достаточно сильным, быть способным. Максимальное усилие дракона не было совершенно безрезультатным, но привело к его изгнанию с небес (Swet...
AND THERE WAS WAR IN HEAVEN, &C.— It might reasonably be presumed, that all the powers of idolatry would be strenuously exerted against the establishment of Christianity, and especially against the es...
_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...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 36 Text Revelation 12:7-12 7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going forth to war with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels; 8 and they prevai...
And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. PREVAILED NOT. So 'Aleph (') B C, Vulgate; but A, Coptic, read, 'He prevailed not.' NEITHER. 'Aleph (') A B C read, 'not even'...
__ 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 PREVAILED NOT... — Better, _And their power failed them, and not even was place for them found any more in the heaven._ The result of the war was the dragon’s defeat. The whole power of the evil h...
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...
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...
If the details of this vision are chronological, then the devil stormed heaven after the great defeat he suffered at Christ's resurrection. Michael, the archangel, called in Judges 1:9, and his angels...
(15) And prevailed not; neither was their (a) place found any more in heaven. (15) The description of the victory, by the denying of the thing in this verse, and by affirming the opposite in (Revelati...
(7) And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, (8) And prevailed not; neither was their place found anymore in heaven. (9) And...
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...
_MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS_ ‘Michael and his angels.’ Revelation 12:7 The belief in angelic creatures has been a favourite article in the universal creed, but the most unequivocal and direct evidence...
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 PREVAILED NOT,.... That is, the dragon, or the devil, and his angels, prevailed not against Michael and his angels; but, on the other hand, were conquered by them, as the above tyrants were by Con...
And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. Ver. 8. _And prevailed not_] They were so totally routed and ruined, that they could never rally or rage any more. _Iucundum Chris...
_And there was war in heaven_, &c. It might reasonably be presumed that all the powers of idolatry would be strenuously exerted against the establishment of Christianity, and especially against the es...
The dragon cast out of heaven:...
AND PREVAILED NOT, NEITHER WAS THEIR PLACE FOUND ANY MORE IN HEAVEN....
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...
_ 8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer._ A. Satan did not win. He was not given any power to control people. B. The devil no longer has control over us. C...
7-11 The attempts of the dragon proved unsuccessful against the church, and fatal to his own interests. The seat of this war was in heaven; in the church of Christ, the kingdom of heaven on earth. Th...
The pagans were at length routed in this battle; the Christians overcame them by the preaching of the gospel, and by their faith and patience; and paganism found no place within the same territories w...
Revelation 12:8 but G2532 not G3756 prevail G2480 (G5656) nor G3777 was G2147 place G5117 found G2147 ...
‘And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels going forth to war with the monster, and the monster warred, and his angels. And they did not prevail neither was their place found any more in hea...
Revelation 12:7-9. With the words of Revelation 12:7 the second scene of the chapter opens, and the transition from the ideal to the actual begins. As the first scene, too, corresponded to the first p...
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 THEY PREVAILED NOT (κα ουκ ισχυσαν). Here κα equals "and yet" or "but." A few MSS. read the singular ισχυσεν like επολεμησεν, but wrongly so.NEITHER WAS THEIR PLACE FOUND ANY MORE (ουδε τοπος...
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...
_There was war in heaven._ WAR IN HEAVEN I. The character of the war of rebel angels in heaven. 1. Wilful. They brought it on themselves. 2. Irreconcilable. (1) On the part of God. (2) This war i...
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 12:8 The victory of Michael and the holy angels over the DRAGON and his allies may symbolize Jesus’ triumph on the cross (compare...
There was war in heaven and the Devil and his angels were cast out. And a voice said: "Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our...
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....
_ 7 AND THERE WAS WAR IN HEAVEN: MICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS FOUGHT AGAINST THE DRAGON; AND THE DRAGON FOUGHT AND HIS ANGELS,_ _ 8 AND PREVAILED NOT; NEITHER WAS THEIR PLACE FOUND ANY MORE IN HEAVEN._ M...
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...
Acts 1:25; Jeremiah 1:19; Jeremiah 5:22; Job 20:9; Job 27:21;...
Prevailed [ι σ χ υ σ α ν]. See on Luke 14:30; Luke 16:3; James 5:16....
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 he prevailed not — The dragon himself is principally mentioned; but his angels, likewise, are to be understood. Neither was this place found any more in heaven — So till now he had a place in heav...