Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 12:14 - 12:14

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Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 12:14 - 12:14


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There were given (edothēsan). As in Rev 8:2; Rev 9:1, Rev 9:3.

The two wings of the great eagle (hai duo pteruges tou aetou tou megalou). Not the eagle of Rev 8:13, but the generic use of the article. Every eagle had two wings. Probably here, as in Mat 24:28, the griffon or vulture rather than the true eagle is pictured. For the eagle in the O.T. see Exo 19:4; Isa 40:31; Job 9:26.

That she might fly (hina petētai). Purpose clause with hina and present middle subjunctive of petomai, old verb, to fly, in N.T. only in the Apocalypse (Rev 4:7; Rev 8:13; Rev 12:14; Rev 14:6; Rev 19:17). Resumption of the details in Rev 12:6 (which see) about the “wilderness,” her “place,” the redundant ekei with hopou, the “time and times, and half a time” (kairon kai kairous kai hēmisu), 1260 days, but with trephetai (present passive indicative) instead of trephōsin (general plural of the present active subjunctive), and with the addition of “from the face of the serpent” (apo prosōpou tou opheōs), because the serpent rules the earth for that period. “To the end of the present order the Church dwells in the wilderness” (Swete), and yet we must carry on for Christ.