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The Hidden but Protected Church
Commentators agree the "woman" symbolizes the church. Her flight into the "wilderness" represents a period when the true church was obscure, persecuted, and seemingly hidden from the world. However, this was not a place of abandonment but a place of divine safety and preservation, prepared by God himself.
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Albert Barnes
On Revelation 12:6
18th Century
Theologian
And the woman. The woman represents the church. See Barnes on Revelation 12:1.
Fled. That is, she fled in the manner and a…
AT Robertson
On Revelation 12:6
Fled into the wilderness (εφυγεν εις την ερημον). Second aorist active indicative of φευγω. Here, of course, not Mary, but "the id…
Charles Ellicott
On Revelation 12:6
19th Century
Bishop
And the woman fled.—Translate: And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has there a place prepared by God, that they …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Revelation 12:6
19th Century
Preacher
The church of God was long in obscurity. You can hardly find it among the Albigenses and Waldenses. It was hidden away among the mountains. The Wyc…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Revelation 12:6
What is this flight into the desert? Is it a symbolic or an actual historic event? Among those who take it literally, some have understood the refe…
John Gill
On Revelation 12:6
17th Century
Pastor
And the woman fled into the wilderness
Not as soon as she was delivered of her child, which is not reasonable to suppose, and …
Matthew Henry
On Revelation 12:1–6
17th Century
Minister
The church, under the emblem of a woman (the mother of believers), was seen by the apostle in a vision, in heaven. She was clothed with the sun���j…