Revelation 12:1
And there was a great sign in the heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
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2and being in gestation, she also cries, travailing in pain, and suffering to bring forth.
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 →