Revelation 12:1
Then a great portent was seen in the heavens – a woman whose robe was the sun, and who had the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
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2She was pregnant; and she is crying out in the pain and agony of childbirth.
Cross References
Psalms 84:11for the Lord is sun and shield, the Lord gives grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from the life that is blameless.
Zechariah 9:16And the Lord their God will save them on that day, as the flock of his people, as the jewel of a crown shining in his land.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 12:1
It is generally agreed by the most learned expositors that the narrative we have in this and the two following chapters, from the sounding of the seventh trumpet to the opening of the vials, is not a prediction of things to come, but rather a recapitulation and representation of things past, which, as God would have the apostle to foresee while future, he would have him to review now that they were past, that he might have a more perfect idea of them in his mind, and might observe the agreement between the… Read the whole commentary →