Revelation Chapter 12 verse 2 Holy Bible
and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.
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And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.
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and being with child she cried, [being] in travail, and in pain to bring forth.
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And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
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She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
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and being with child she doth cry out, travailing and pained to bring forth.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. The present, "crieth," κρὰζει, is found in א, A, P, Coptic, Andreas in a et bav., etc.; the imperfect, ἐκράζεν, is read in C, Vulgate, 7, 8, 31, etc., Andreas in c et p, Primasius; the aorist, ἐκράζεν, in B, twelve cursives (cf. the words of our Lord in John 16:21, 22). A similar image occurs in Isaiah 26:17; Isaiah 66:7, 8; Micah 4:10. The trouble which afflicted the Jewish Church, and the longing of the patriarchs for the advent of the Saviour, are here depicted. So also St. Paul, encouraging the Romans to bear patiently their sufferings, says, "The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now" (Romans 8:22).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) And she . . .--Better, And being with child, she crieth, travailing, and tormented to bring forth. All life dawns in anguish, according to the ancient fiat (Genesis 3:16); but this is not all. There is an anguish of the Church which Christ laid upon her; it is the law of her life that she must bring forth Christ to the world; it is not simply that she must encounter pain, but that she cannot work deliverance without knowing suffering. Thus the Apostles felt: the love of Christ constrained them; woe it would be to them if they did not preach the Gospel; necessity was laid upon them; they spoke of themselves as travailing in birth over their children till Christ was formed in them. This, then, is the picture, the Church fulfilling her destiny even in pain. The work was to bring forth Christ to men, and never to be satisfied till Christ was formed in them, i.e., till the spirit of Christ, and the teaching of Christ, and the example of Christ were received, loved, and obeyed, and men transformed to the same image, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.But there was to be opposition; the enemy is on the watch to destroy the likeness of Christ wherever it was seen.
