SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:6
Y la mujer huy al desierto, donde tiene lugar aparejado de Dios, para que allí la mantengan mil doscientos sesenta días.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 12:6
Verse 6. And the woman fled into the wilderness] The account of the woman's flying into the wilderness immediately follows that of her child being caught up to the throne of God, to denote the great and rapid increase of heresies in the Christian Church after the time that Christianity was made the religion of the empire. Where she hath a place prepared of God] See on Revelation xii. 14.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. And the woman fled into the wilderness , etc.] Not as soon as she was delivered of her child, which is not reasonable to suppose, and would have been improper if not impracticable; nor indeed was this flight until after the war was over, mentioned in ( Revelation 12:13-17); nor until the dragon and his angels were conquered and cast out; nor until a fresh persecution was raised by the dragon against the woman, as appears from ( Revelation 12:14); where this account stands in its proper place, and is here only introduced by way of prolepsis, or anticipation, and that with this view, to show what care was taken of the woman, as well as of her son: and this does not design the flight of the Christians from Jerusalem to Pella, a little before the destruction of the former; nor the expulsion of the Jews or Christians from Rome, either by Claudius or by Nero; but the disappearance of the true church, and its obscure state and condition quickly after the above advance of it; for through the riches and honours which Constantine bestowed upon the Christians, they became vain, proud, ambitious, and careless; false doctrine and superstition obtained; the antichristian apostasy came on apace, and prevailed and increased, and so obscured the true church, that in process of time it became invisible, was in the cleft of the rock, and in the secret places of the stairs, or like persons in a wood or wilderness, not to be seen, as well as desolate and uncomfortable: where she hath a place prepared of God ; God has had, and will have a church in the worst of times; as he reserved a number in Elijah's time, so he did in the times of the antichristian apostasy, who bowed not the knee to idolatry; this woman, the church, and her case, are the same with the 144,000 sealed ones in ( Revelation 7:1-8): whom God distinguished, hid, and preserved; for the wilderness is a place of retirement and safety, ( Ezekiel 34:25), as well as of obscurity; and if any particular place is pointed at, I should think the valleys of Piedmont, which lie between France and Italy, are intended, where God has preserved, and continued a set of witnesses to the truth, in a succession, from the beginning of the apostasy to the present time, living in obscurity, and in safety, so far as not to be utterly destroyed: that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days : in allusion to the children of Israel in the wilderness, where they were fed with manna forty years; so the overcomers, or true Christians in the Pergamos church state, have hidden manna given them to eat, the food of the wilderness, with which church state the church in the wilderness must be considered as contemporary, as also with the Thyatirian and Sardian church states; for though, at the Reformation, which the Sardinian church state introduces, the church appeared again, and has been ever since coming up out of the wilderness, yet she is stall in it; where she is fed and nourished with the Gospel, and the ordinances of it, by the faithful ministers of the word, the two witnesses that prophesy in sackcloth; the time of whose prophesying: is exactly of the same date with the woman's bring in the wilderness, and with the reign of antichrist, namely, forty two months, or 1260 days, that is so many years, ( Revelation 11:2,3,13).
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 η 3588 γυνη 1135 εφυγεν 5343 5627 εις 1519 την 3588 ερημον 2048 οπου 3699 εχει 2192 5719 τοπον 5117 ητοιμασμενον 2090 5772 απο 575 του 3588 θεου 2316 ινα 2443 εκει 1563 τρεφωσιν 5142 5725 αυτην 846 ημερας 2250 χιλιας 5507 διακοσιας 1250 εξηκοντα 1835
Vincent's NT Word Studies
6. Of God (apo tou Qeou). Lit., from God, the preposition marking the source from which the preparation came. For a similar use, see Jas. i. 13, "tempted of God."
