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Revelation 12:7

Revelation 12:7
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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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

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,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

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…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Revelation 12:1-11

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

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…