A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, Volumes 1 & 2 (Biblia.com)

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For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

γυνὴ περιβεβλημένη τὸν ἥλιον κτλ. In its present context this woman1 represents the true Israel or the community of believers. This community embraces Jewish and Gentile Christians, all of whom are to undergo the last great tribulation. But the original expectation of the source 12:1–5, 13–17 (67–69 A.D.), that the Jewish Christians would escape (see 12:14–16 notes, Introd. § 10), survives in the text and is meaningless in 95 A.D. “The rest of her seed” (= originally “Gentile Christians”) in

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