Passage Research
Revelation 12 — Sermon Preparation
A vision of a woman, a great red dragon, and a male child unfolds, culminating in war in heaven and the dragon's pursuit of the woman on earth. Below is a research summary for Revelation 12, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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Revelation 12 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| δράκων | drákōn | G1404 | 8 | dragon |
| βάλλω | bállō | G906 | 8 | arise, cast, dung, lay |
| γυνή | gynḗ | G1135 | 8 | wife, woman |
| τίκτω | tíktō | G5088 | 5 | bear, be born, bring forth, be delivered |
| οὐρανός | ouranós | G3772 | 7 | air, heaven, sky |
| μέγας | mégas | G3173 | 6 | exceedingly, great, high, large |
| γῆ | gē | G1093 | 6 | country, earth, ground, land |
How preachers through history handled this text
7 public-domain excerpts on Revelation 12, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“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 a …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 6 (Acts to Revelation), on Revelation 12:1–25 (Public Domain)
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