Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Revelation 12:17
And the dragon was wroth with the woman. "Waxed wroth" (Revised
Version). Was angry at his defeat. He continued the warfare by asking
to destroy the woman's seed. I believe that this vision reveals the
persecution of the true Church, first by Pagan, and then by Papal Rome,
a persecution that results in the apparent disappearance of the true
Church from the earth. Though not visible to the eye of the historian
during this period, yet the true Church, fed of God, survives in the
hearts of the hidden and persecuted saints. The period of her exile
began about 533, in the reign of Justinian, and ends about the
beginning of the nineteenth century. Before the end of the period, the
Divine measure, the reed of the apostles, was used to measure the
temple, altar and worshipers, and, as the result, over three-fourths of
a century ago, the true Church began to appear as a visible body, once
more in the world.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Revelation 11:8
Revelation 13:2
Revelation 17:4
Revelation 17:8
Revelation 17:9
Revelation 17:11
Revelation 19:20
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