And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
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Gill's Exposition
And the woman fled into the wilderness,.... Not as soon as she was delivered of her child, which is not reasonable to suppose, and would have been improper if not impracticable; nor indeed was this…
Barnes' Notes
And the woman - The woman representing the church. See the notes at Rev 12:1. Fled - That is, she fled in the manner, and at the time, stated in Rev 12:14. John here evidently anticipates, by a…
Adam Clarke
And the woman fled into the wilderness - The account of the woman's flying into the wilderness immediately follows that of her child being caught up to the throne of God, to denote the great and rapid…
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…
Cambridge Bible
into the wilderness Did she descend to earth? she had appeared in heaven before. See on Rev 10:9.
where she hath a place Most of the historical interpretations that have been advanced for this part of…
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