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Revelation 12:10
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8 but they1 did not prevail, nor was a place found for2 them in heaven any longer.  
9 So athe great dragon was cast out, bthat serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, cwho deceives the whole world; dhe was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.  
10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, a“Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, bwho accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.  
11 And athey overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, band they did not love their lives to the death.  
12 Therefore arejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! bWoe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, cbecause he knows that he has a short time.”  

The Woman Persecuted

13 Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted athe woman who gave birth to the male Child.  
14 aBut the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, bthat she might fly cinto the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished dfor a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.  
15 So the serpent aspewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.  
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Revelation 12:10

A great voice saying (fwnhn megalhn legousan). Accusative after hkousa in this phrase as in Revelation 5:11; Revelation 10:4; Revelation 14:2; Revelation 18:4, but the genitive fwnhv legoushv in Revelation 11:12; Revelation 14:13. We are not told whence this voice or song comes, possibly from one of the twenty-four elders (Swete) or some other heavenly beings (Revelation 11:15) who can sympathize with human beings (Revelation 19:10), the martyrs in heaven (Charles).

Now is come (arti egeneto). Arti (John 13:33) shows how recent the downfall of Satan here proleptically pictured as behind us in time (aorist tense egeneto).

The salvation (h swthria). Here "the victory" as in Revelation 7:10; Revelation 19:1.

The power (h dunamiv). Gods power over the dragon (cf. Revelation 7:12; Revelation 11:17; Revelation 19:1).

The kingdom (h basileia). "The empire of God" as in Revelation 11:15.

The authority of his Christ (h ecousia tou Xristou autou). Which Christ received from the Father (Matthew 28:18; John 17:2). See Revelation 11:15 (Psalms 2:2) for "his Anointed."

The accuser (o kathgwr). The regular form, kathgorov, occurs in John 8:10; Acts 23:30, Acts 23:35; Acts 25:16, Acts 25:18 and in many MSS. here in Revelation 12:10, but A reads kathgwr, which Westcott and Hort accept. It was once considered a Greek transliteration of a Hebrew word, but Deissmann (Light, etc., p. 93f.) quotes it from a vernacular magical papyrus of the fourth century AD with no sign of Jewish or Christian influence, just as diakwn appears as a vernacular form of diakonov. Only here is the word applied to Satan in the N.T. In late Judaism Satan is the accuser, and Michael the defender, of the faithful.

Of our brethren (twn adelfwn hmwn). The saints still on earth battling with Satan and his devices.

Which accuseth them (o kathgorwn autouv). Articular present active participle of kathgorew, old verb, to accuse, usually with the genitive of the person (John 5:45), but here with the accusative. This is the devil's constant occupation (Job 1:6 f.).

Day and night (hmerav kai nuktov). Genitive of time. "By day and by night."




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 12:10:

Revelation 7:10
Revelation 11:12
Revelation 12:10
Revelation 12:12
Revelation 12:13
Revelation 19:1
Revelation 20:10

 

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