Revelation 12:15

Revelation 12:15

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:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Water as a flood (udwr wv potamon). "Water as a river," accusative case after ebalen (cast). The serpent could not follow the woman or stop her flight and so sought to drown her.

That he might cause her to be carried away by the stream (ina authn potamoforhton poihsh). Purpose clause with ina and the first aorist active subjunctive of poiew. For this use of poiew see Revelation 17:16. This compound verbal potamoforhton in the predicate accusative (potamov, river, forhton from forew, to bear) was not coined by John, but occurs in a papyrus of BC 110 and in several others after N.T. times. It means simply "carried away by the river."

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