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Woman Clothed with the Sun

Woman with moon under her feet and crown of 12 stars, pregnant; male child caught up to God; woman flees to wilderness 1,260 days. Widely read as Israel.

Key Hebrew Terms

אִשָּׁה (ishah, H802); כוֹכָבִים (kokavim, H3556); חֶבְלֵי־לֶדֶת (chevley-ledet, H2256)

Key Greek Terms

γυνή (gyne, G1135); ἄρσεν (arsen, G730); δράκων (drakon, G1404)

Linked Verses (8)

Genesis 37:9 source
KJV

And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

Genesis 37:10 source
KJV

And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

KJV

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

KJV

And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

KJV

And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

KJV

And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

KJV

And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

KJV

And the woman 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.

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Church Fathers

Hippolytus (On Christ and Antichrist 60-61) identifies the woman as the Church rather than Israel specifically, with the male child as Christ. Methodius of Olympus (Symposium VIII) reads her as the Church in mystical union with Christ. Victorinus of Pettau (on Revelation 12) reads her as the ancient Church persecuted from Eve onward. The dual Israel/Church reading (she is both) emerges by Augustine and becomes standard in medieval Latin commentary.