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- Revelation
- Chapter 12
- Verse 7
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
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Gill's Exposition
And there was war in heaven,.... Not in the third heaven, the habitation of God, the seat of the angels and glorified saints, there is no discord, jars, and contentions there, nothing but peace, love,…
Barnes' Notes
And there was war in heaven - There was a state of things existing in regard to the woman and the child - the church in the condition in which it would then be - which would be well represented by a…
Adam Clarke
Rev 12:7 per Adam Clarke
There was war in heaven - In the same treatise, fol. 87, 2, on Exo 14:7, Pharaoh took six hundred chariots, we have these words: "There was war among those above and among…
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
The War in Heaven, Rev 12:7-12
7. there was war in heaven This must refer to an event subsequent to the Incarnation not, therefore, to the "Fall of the Angels," as readers of Paradise Lostare apt to…
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