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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Revelation 12:1
The Visions of the Church
SUMMARY OF REVELATION 12: The Vision in Heaven. The Woman Clothed with
the Sun. Her Offspring. The Great Red Dragon. The Conflict in
Heaven. The War on the Woman's Seed. Her Seed Caught Up. Her Flight
into the Wilderness. The Flood Cast by the Dragon. The Earth Helping
the Woman.
A woman. A woman is used as a symbol many times in the Scriptures.
"Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh"
(Isaiah 62:11). Here the reference is to the Church. Again Paul says,
"We are not the children of the bondwoman, but of the free" (Galatians 4:31).
All are agreed that here the free woman represents the Church. Again,
John sees the New Jerusalem descending adorned as a bride to meet her
husband (Revelation 21:2). The bride, the Lamb's wife, here and in
Revelation 21:9, indeed in every place spoken of, is the Church. Once
more: Paul speaks of Jerusalem, the mother of us all, alluding again to
the Church (Galatians 4:26). This symbol, then, is a common one to
represent the Church, and we are justified in declaring that to be its
meaning in this passage.
Clothed with the sun. The fact that she is clothed with the sun
symbolizes the fact that the true Church shines with the light of the
sun of righteousness.
And the moon under her feet represents the Old Testament, or old
dispensation, which shone by a reflected right and is subordinate to
the New Covenant of the Church.
And upon her head a crown of twelve stars is explained by the
twelve apostles, lights of the Church and a grown of glory to it.
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Revelation 12:3
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