Revelation 12:14

Revelation 12:14

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:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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There were given (edoqhsan). As in Revelation 8:2; Revelation 9:1, Revelation 9:3.

The two wings of the great eagle (ai duo pterugev tou aetou tou megalou). Not the eagle of Revelation 8:13, but the generic use of the article. Every eagle had two wings. Probably here, as in Matthew 24:28, the griffon or vulture rather than the true eagle is pictured. For the eagle in the O.T. see Exodus 19:4; Isaiah 40:31; Job 9:26; 24:54.

That she might fly (ina pethtai). Purpose clause with ina and present middle subjunctive of petomai, old verb, to fly, in N.T. only in the Apocalypse (Revelation 4:7; Revelation 8:13; Revelation 12:14; Revelation 14:6; Revelation 19:17). Resumption of the details in verse Revelation 12:6 (which see) about the "wilderness," her "place," the redundant ekei with opou, the "time and times, and half a time" (kairon kai kairouv kai hmisu), 1260 days, but with trefetai (present passive indicative) instead of trefwsin (general plural of the present active subjunctive), and with the addition of "from the face of the serpent" (apo proswpou tou ofewv), because the serpent rules the earth for that period. "To the end of the present order the Church dwells in the wilderness" (Swete), and yet we must carry on for Christ.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 12:14:**

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