Revelation 12:6 (WEB)
The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.
As quoted in the map (KJV)
Revelation 12:6 (KJV)
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Key words
- ἔφυγεν εἰς τὴν ἔρημονephygen eis tēn erēmon · Greek
- 'fled into the wilderness' — Isaiah 66:7 LXX says the mother 'escaped' (exephygen) and bore a male.
Why it matters
After the birth the Woman flees into the wilderness. Pitre's Greek parallel table (p 127) lines up Isaiah 66:7 LXX with Revelation 12:2, 6 and 5 — she was in labour, she escaped, she bore a male — to show John is building the vision on Isaiah's prophecy of the painless birth. That is his third reason the Woman's pangs are the anguish of the cross rather than literal labour at Bethlehem.
Fathers and councils · 1
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the saints of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus.”” — editor's note: Rev. xii. 1–6, etc.
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