Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 12:8 - 12:8

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Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 12:8 - 12:8


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And they prevailed not (kai ouk ischusan). Here kai equals “and yet” or “but.” A few MSS. read the singular ischusen like epolemēsen, but wrongly so.

Neither was their place found any more (oude topos heurethē autōn eti). First aorist passive indicative of heuriskō, to find. Probably autōn is the objective genitive (place for them), just as in Rev 20:11 autois (dative, for them) is used with topos ouch heurethē. The phrase occurs in Dan 2:35 Theod. and Zec 10:10. The dragon is finally expelled from heaven (cf. Job 1:6), though to us it seems a difficult conception to think of Satan having had access to heaven.