SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:2
Y estando encinta, clamaba con dolores de parto, y sufría tormento por dar a luz.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 12:2
Verse 2. And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, &c.] This, when taken in connection with the following verses, is a striking figure of the great persecution which the Church of Christ should suffer under the heathen Roman emperors, but more especially of that long and most dreadful one under Diocletian. The woman is represented as BEING with child, to show that the time would speedily arrive when God's patient forbearance with the heathen would be terminated, and that a deliverer should arise in the Christian world who would execute the Divine vengeance upon paganism.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. And she being big with child , etc.] Which may be expressive of the fruitfulness of the church in bearing and bringing forth many souls to Christ, and which were very numerous in this period of time, when it was said of Zion that this and that man was born in her; and particularly of her pregnancy with the kingdom of Christ, to be brought forth, and set up in the Roman empire, under the influence of a Roman emperor: and this being her case, she cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered ; which are metaphors taken from a woman in travail; and may either denote the earnest cries and fervent prayers of the members of the church, and the laborious and painful ministrations of the preachers of the Gospel for the conversion of souls, and especially for the setting up of the kingdom of Christ in the empire of Rome; or else the sore and grievous persecutions which attended the apostles of Christ, and succeeding ministers of the word, throughout the times of the ten Roman emperors, and especially under Dioclesian; when the church was big, and laboured in great pain, and the time was drawing on apace that a Christian emperor should be brought forth, who should be a means of spreading the Gospel, and the kingdom of Christ, all over the empire; (see Jeremiah 30:6,7 Matthew 24:8); so the Targumist frequently explains the pains of a woman in travail in the prophets by aq[ , tribulation; see the Targum on ( Isaiah 13:8 26:18 66:7).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - The church, under the emblem of a woman, the mother of believers, wa seen by the apostle in vision, in heaven. She was clothed with the sun justified, sanctified, and shining by union with Christ, the Sun of Righteousness. The moon was under her feet; she was superior to the reflected and feebler light of the revelation made by Moses. Having of her head a crown of twelve stars; the doctrine of the gospel, preache by the twelve apostles, is a crown of glory to all true believers. A in pain to bring forth a holy family; desirous that the conviction of sinners might end in their conversion. A dragon is a known emblem of Satan, and his chief agents, or those who govern for him on earth, a that time the pagan empire of Rome, the city built upon seven hills. A having ten horns, divided into ten kingdoms. Having seven crowns representing seven forms of government. As drawing with his tail third part of the stars in heaven, and casting them down to the earth persecuting and seducing the ministers and teachers. As watchful to crush the Christian religion; but in spite of the opposition of enemies, the church brought forth a manly issue of true and faithfu professors, in whom Christ was truly formed anew; even the mystery of Christ, that Son of God who should rule the nations, and in whose righ his members partake the same glory. This blessed offspring wa protected of God.
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 εν 1722 γαστρι 1064 εχουσα 2192 5723 κραζει 2896 5719 ωδινουσα 5605 5723 και 2532 βασανιζομενη 928 5746 τεκειν 5088 5629
Vincent's NT Word Studies
2. Travailing in birth (wdinousa). See on sorrows, Mark xiii. 9, and pains, Acts ii. 24.
In pain (basanizomenh). Lit., being tormented. See on ch. xi. 10, and references. For the imagery compare Isa. lxvi. 7, 8; John xvi. 21.
