15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
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15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
15 and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river,
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth behind the woman water as a river, that he might make her be [as] one carried away by a river.
15 The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
15 And the snake sent out of his mouth after the woman a river of water, so that she might be taken away by the stream.
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Commentary on Revelation 12 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 12
It is generally agreed by the most learned expositors that the narrative we have in this and the two following chapters, from the sounding of the seventh trumpet to the opening of the vials, is not a prediction of things to come, but rather a recapitulation and representation of things past, which, as God would have the apostle to foresee while future, he would have him to review now that they were past, that he might have a more perfect idea of them in his mind, and might observe the agreement between the prophecy and that Providence that is always fulfilling the scriptures. In this chapter we have an account of the contest between the church and antichrist, the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent.
Rev 12:1-11
Here we see that early prophecy eminently fulfilled in which God said he would put enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, Gen. 3:15. You will observe,
Rev 12:12-17
We have here an account of this war, so happily finished in heaven, or in the church, as it was again renewed and carried on in the wilderness, the place to which the church had fled, and where she had been for some time secured by the special care of her God and Saviour. Observe,