Revelation 12:2 BSB

Revelation 12:2

She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.

BSB

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ASV

and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.

KJV

And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

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Commentary

2 voices

Hippolytus of Rome

Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments (235)

And those, "she, being with child, cries, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered," mean that the Church will not cease to bear from her heart the Word that is persecuted by the unbelieving in the world.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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 suffer under the heathen Roman emperors, but more especially of that long and most dreadful one under Diocletian. The woman is represented as Being with child, to show that the time would speedily arrive when God’s patient forbearance with the heathen would be terminated, and that a deliverer should arise in the Christian world who would execute the Divine vengeance upon paganism.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
γαστρὶ	gastri	womb	G1064 →
ἔχουσα,	echousa	having,	G2192 →
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
κράζει	krazei	she cries out	G2896 →
ὠδίνουσα	ōdinousa	being in travail	G5605 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
βασανιζομένη	basanizomenē	being in pain	G928 →
τεκεῖν.¶	tekein	to bring forth.	G5088 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Galatians 4:19
My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
leads to
- Ephesians 4:13
  until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ.
- Romans 13:14
  Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
- Romans 8:29
  For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- Ephesians 4:24
  and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
- Colossians 4:12
  Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in the…
Through
Micah 5:3
Therefore Israel will be abandoned until she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of His brothers will return to the children of Israel.
leads to
- Revelation 12:1–2
  And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed in the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
Through
Revelation 12:4
His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, tossing them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child…
leads to
- Daniel 8:9–12
  From one of these horns a little horn emerged and grew extensively toward the south and the east and toward the Beautiful Land.
- Revelation 12:9
  And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Revelation

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Revelation