Revelation 12:11 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Revelation 12:11

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.

16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus¹ Christ.

Commentaries:

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Revelation 12:11

they—emphatic in the Greek. "They" in particular. They and they alone. They were the persons who overcame.

overcame— (Romans 8:33-34, Romans 8:37; Romans 16:20).

him— (I John 2:14-15). It is the same victory (a peculiarly Johannean phrase) over Satan and the world which the Gospel of John describes in the life of Jesus, his Epistle in the life of each believer, and his Apocalypse in the life of the Church.

by, etc.—Greek (dia to haima; accusative, not genitive case, as English Version would require, compare Hebrews 9:12), "on account of (on the ground of) the blood of the Lamb"; "because of"; on account of and by virtue of its having been shed. Had that blood not been shed, Satan's accusations would have been unanswerable; as it is, that blood meets every charge. SCHOTTGEN mentions the Rabbinical tradition that Satan accuses men all days of the year, except the day of atonement. TITTMANN takes the Greek "dia," as it often means, out of regard to the blood of the Lamb; this was the impelling cause which induced them to undertake the contest for the sake of it; but the view given above is good Greek, and more in accordance with the general sense of Scripture.

by the word of their testimony—Greek, "on account of the word of their testimony." On the ground of their faithful testimony, even unto death, they are constituted victors. Their testimony evinced their victory over him by virtue of the blood of the Lamb. Hereby they confess themselves worshippers of the slain Lamb and overcome the beast, Satan's representative; an anticipation of Revelation 15:2, "them that had gotten the victory over the beast" (compare Revelation 13:15-16).

unto—Greek, "achri," "even as far as." They carried their not-love of life as far as even unto death.

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Revelation 12:11:

Song of Solomon 8:6
Revelation 12:13
Revelation 15:3

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