SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:5
Y ella dio a luz un hijo varn, el cual había de regir todos los gentiles con vara de hierro; y su hijo fue arrebatado para Dios y para su trono.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 12:5
Verse 5. And her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.] In Yalcut Rubeni are these words: "Rachael, the niece of Methusala, was pregnant, and ready to be delivered in Egypt. They trod upon her, and the child came out of her bowels, and lay under the bed; Michael descended, and took him up to the throne of glory. On that same night the first born of Egypt were destroyed." Verse 5. And she brought forth a man child] The Christian Church, when her full time came, obtained a deliverer, who, in the course of the Divine providence, was destined:- To rule all nations] The heathen Roman empire, With a rod of iron] A strong figure to denote the very great restraint that should be put upon paganism, so that it should not be able longer to persecute the Christian Church. The man child mentioned in this verse is the dynasty of Christians emperors, beginning with Constantine's public acknowledgment of his belief in the divinity of the Christian religion, which happened in the latter part of A.D. 312, after the defeat of the Emperor Maxentius. And her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.] A succession of Christian emperors was raised up to the Church; for the Roman throne, as Bishop Newton observes, is here called the throne of God, because there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 5. And she brought forth a man child , etc.] Not Christ, literally and personally considered, or Christ in his human nature, as made of a woman, and born of a virgin, which was a fact that had been years ago; but Christ mystically, or Christ in his members, who are called by his name, because he is formed in them, and they are the seed of the woman, the church; and many of these were brought forth to Christ by the church in the primitive times, who were a manly birth, hale, strong, and robust Christians; or rather this manly birth may design a more glorious appearing and breaking forth of the kingdom of Christ in the Roman empire; for though Christ came as a King, yet his kingdom was not with observation in the days of his flesh; and though, upon his ascension to heaven, he was made and declared Lord and Christ, and had a kingdom and interest in the world, and even in the Roman empire, during the first three centuries, yet this was attended with the cross and persecution; but now, towards the close of that period, Constantine, a Christian emperor, was born, under whose influence and encouragement the Gospel was spread, and the kingdom of Christ set up and established in the empire; and this seems to be the thing intended here, he being of a generous, heroic, and manly disposition: who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron ; this has a manifest reference to ( Psalm 2:9); which psalm, and the passage referred to in it, evidently belong to Christ; and as this is represented as something future, what should be hereafter, and not what would immediately take place, it may regard the kingdom of Christ in the last times, of which the present breaking forth of it in Constantine's time was an emblem and pledge; and may denote the universality of it, it reaching to all the kingdoms of the world, and the manner which Christ will rule, especially over his enemies, antichrist and his followers, whom he will destroy with the breath of his mouth, and break in pieces with his rod of iron, and order all that would not have him to reign over them slain before him; and as this may be applied to Christ mystical, the seed of the church, and members of Christ, as it is in ( Revelation 2:26,27); it may relate to their reign with Christ on earth, when they shall sit on thrones, and judge the world, when the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to there; but since this is expressly said of the man child in the text, it may be expressive even of the temporal government of Constantine, who was an heroic and victorious prince, and extended his dominions to the several parts of the world; as far as Britain to the west, and all Scythia to the north, Ethiopia to the south, and the remote parts of India to the east, even to the ultimate parts of the whole world, as Eusebius affirms, making his kingdom to be three times larger than that of Alexander the great: and more especially it may describe the kingdom of Christ in his times; which was spread throughout all the nations of the empire; when Paganism was demolished, both in the continent and in the isles of the sea, and the strong holds Satan were pulled down, not by carnal, but spiritual weapons; when multitudes of souls were converted by the word, the rod of Christ's strength, and when the saints were guided, directed, fed, and comforted by it; for the allusion seems to be to the shepherd's rod, with which he leads and feeds his sheep; the same word signifies both to rule and feed: and her child caught up unto God, and [to] his throne ; which is to be understood not of Christ's ascent to heaven in human nature, when he was set down on the same throne with his Father; nor of Christ mystical, or of the saints being caught up into the air, to meet the Lord and be for ever with him, and sit down with him on the same throne; but rather of some glorious advance of the church and kingdom of Christ on earth; for as to fall from heaven is expressive of debasement and meanness, and of a low estate that a person is brought into, ( Isaiah 14:12); so an ascending up to heaven, as the two witnesses in the preceding chapter are said to do, denotes exaltation, or a rise to some more glorious state and condition, which was the case of the church in Constantine's time: and this may also take in the accession of Constantine himself to the imperial throne, which was the throne of God; for king's have their sceptres, thrones, and kingdoms from him, they his viceregents, and in some measure represent and are therefore called gods, and the children of the most high; yea, since Constantine, as advanced to the empire, was such an instrument in Christ's hand for the setting up and establishing his kingdom in it, Christ himself may be here represented as reigning over the Roman empire, as a presage and prelude of his reigning over all the earth another day.
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 ετεκεν 5088 5627 υιον 5207 αρρενα 730 ος 3739 μελλει 3195 5719 ποιμαινειν 4165 5721 παντα 3956 τα 3588 εθνη 1484 εν 1722 ραβδω 4464 σιδηρα 4603 και 2532 ηρπασθη 726 5681 το 3588 τεκνον 5043 αυτης 846 προς 4314 τον 3588 θεον 2316 και 2532 τον 3588 θρονον 2362 αυτου 846
Vincent's NT Word Studies
5. A man-child (uion arrena). Lit., a son, a male. The correct reading is arsen, the neuter, not agreeing with the masculine individual (uion son) but with the neuter of the genus. The object is to emphasize, not the sex, but the quality of Masculinity - power and vigor. Rev., a son, a man-child. Compare John xvi. 21; Jer. xx. 15.
To rule (poimainein). Lit., to shepherd or tend. See on Matt. ii. 6. A rod of iron. Compare Psalm ii. 9, and see on ch. ii. 27.
Was caught up (hrpasqh). See on Matt. xii. 12. Compare Acts xxiii. 10; Jude 23.
