Epiphanius, Tychonius (who heavily influenced St. Interpretation as the Virgin Mary History Īncient witnesses to the Marian interpretation include St. It is a 41 m monument built in the 1970s after a wooden sculpture of the same name by 18th century painter and sculptor Bernardo de Legarda. Virgin of El Panecillo or Virgin of Quito. The dragon attempts to inundate her place of refuge, by "water as a flood" emerging from his mouth (12:15), but the flood is swallowed up by the earth (12:16), so the dragon went "to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ" (12:17). The woman is again mentioned in 12:13, as she is persecuted by the dragon, and she escapes on her "two wings of a great eagle" (12:14). Then there is a description of " War in Heaven" of the angels against the dragon, and "the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." (12:9) But her child is "caught up unto God" (12:5), and the woman herself is "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." (12:6) Then there is "a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads" (12:3) who is about to "devour her child as soon as it was born" (12:4). The woman is pregnant and about to give birth, "travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered" (12:2). The text describes "a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars" (12:1).
Īrsène Heitz, one of the designers who submitted proposals for the flag of Europe and the European Union, suggested that the twelve stars in the current design is derived from the twelve stars above the Woman's head. In Protestant churches, including Reformed Churches and the Evangelical Movement, the Woman of the Apocalypse tends to be seen as the Church or Israel. The Israel of old gave birth to the Messiah (Rev 12:5) and then became the new Israel, the church, which suffers persecution by the dragon (Rev. The commentary of the New American Bible (the official Catholic Bible for America) states that "The woman adorned with the sun, the moon, and the stars (images taken from Genesis 37:9–10) symbolizes God’s people in the Old and the New Testament. Some Catholic commentaries, such as Thomas Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary (1859), allow for the interpretation of the woman as either the Church or Mary. This view does not negate the alternative interpretation of the Woman representing the Church, as in Catholic teaching, Mary is both the Mother of God and the Mother of the Church. This interpretation is held by some commentators of the ancient Church as well as in the medieval and modern Catholic Church. The Woman of the Apocalypse is widely identified as the Virgin Mary. Frustrated, the dragon initiates war on "the remnant of her seed", identified as the righteous followers of Christ. The dragon then attacks her again with a flood of water from his mouth, which is subsequently swallowed by earth. 1,260 days (the duration of each of three periods). The dragon attacks the woman, but the woman escapes on her wings for "a time, times and a time and a half" i.e. This leads to a " War in Heaven" in which the angels cast out the dragon. When the child is taken to heaven, the woman flees on eagle’s wings into the wilderness at a "place prepared of God" for 1,260 days. The woman gives birth to a male child who is threatened by a dragon, identified as the Devil and Satan, who intends to devour the child as soon as he is born. R.The Woman of the Apocalypse (or the woman clothed with the sun, Greek: γυνὴ περιβεβλημένη τὸν ἥλιον Latin: Mulier amicta sole) is a figure, traditionally believed to be the Virgin Mary, described in Chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation (written c.
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