Revelation 12:2

And she being big with child,.... Which may be expressive of the fruitfulness of the church in bearing and bringing forth many souls to Christ, and which were very numerous in this period of time,…

And she being with child cried, travailing in birth ... - That is, there would be something which would be properly represented by a woman in such circumstances. The question now is, what is referred…

And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, etc. - This, when taken in connection with the following verses, is a striking figure of the great persecution which the Church of Christ should…

Here we see that early prophecy eminently fulfilled in which God said he would put enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, Gen 3:15. You will observe,

I. The attempts of…

and she … pained to be delivered There is probably a reminiscence of Gen 3:16, and perhaps of St Joh 16:21, as well as of Mic 4:10, to which the main reference is. Cf. also St Mat 24:8, St Mar 13:1.