Teks -- Revelation 12:15 (NET)

12:15 Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood,

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Robertson: Rev 12:15 - Water as a flood

Water as a flood ( hudōr hōs potamon ).

"Water as a river,"accusative case after ebalen (cast). The serpent could not follow the woman or stop her flight and so sought to drown her.

Robertson: Rev 12:15 - That he might cause her to be carried away by the stream

That he might cause her to be carried away by the stream ( hina autēn potamophorēton poiēsēi ).

Purpose clause with hina and the first aorist active subjunctive of poieō . For this use of poieō see Rev 17:16. This compound verbal potamophorēton in the predicate accusative (potamos , river, phorēton from phoreō , to bear) was not coined by John, but occurs in a papyrus of b.c. 110 and in several others after N.T. times. It means simply "carried away by the river.

Vincent: Rev 12:15 - Cause her to be carried away of the flood

Cause her to be carried away of the flood ( παύτην ποταμοφόρητον ποιήσῃ )

Lit., might make her one carried away by the stream: a river-born one . The word occurs only here in the New Testament.

JFB: Rev 12:15-16 - flood

Greek, "river" (compare Exo 2:3; Mat 2:20; and especially Exo. 14:1-31). The flood, or river, is the stream of Germanic tribes which, pouring on Rome, threatened to destroy Christianity. But the earth helped the woman, by swallowing up the flood. The earth, as contradistinguished from water, is the world consolidated and civilized. The German masses were brought under the influence of Roman civilization and Christianity [AUBERLEN]. Perhaps it includes also, generally, the help given by earthly powers (those least likely, yet led by God's overruling providence to give help) to the Church against persecutions and also heresies, by which she has been at various times assailed.

Clarke: Rev 12:15 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood

And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood - The water here evidently means great multitudes of nations and peoples; for in Rev 17:15, the interpreting angel says, The waters which thou sawest - are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. This water, then, which the dragon cast out of his mouth, must be an inundation of heathen barbarous nations upon the Roman empire; and the purpose which the dragon has in view by this inundation is, that he might cause the woman, or Christian Church: -

To be carried away of the flood - Entirely swept away from the face of the earth. Dr. Mosheim, in the commencement of his second chapter upon the fifth century, observes "that the Goths, the Heruli, the Franks, the Huns, and the Vandals, with other fierce and warlike nations, for the most part strangers to Christianity, had invaded the Roman empire, and rent it asunder in the most deplorable manner. Amidst these calamities the Christians were grievous, nay, we may venture to say the principal, sufferers. It is true these savage nations were much more intent upon the acquisition of wealth and dominion than upon the propagation or support of the pagan superstitions, nor did their cruelty and opposition to the Christians arise from any religious principle, or from an enthusiastic desire to ruin the cause of Christianity; it was merely by the Instigation of the pagans who remained yet in the empire, that they were excited to treat with such severity and violence the followers of Christ."Thus the wo which was denounced, Rev 12:12, against the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea, came upon the whole Roman world; for, in consequence of the excitement and malicious misrepresentations of the pagans of the empire, "a transmigration of a great swarm of nations"came upon the Romans, and ceased not their ravages till they had desolated the eastern empire, even as far as the gates of Byzantium, and finally possessed themselves of the western empire. "If,"says Dr. Robertson, in the introduction to his History of Charles V., vol. i., pp. 11, 12, edit. Lond. 1809, "a man was called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy, a period of one hundred and seventy-six years. The contemporary authors who beheld that scene of desolation, labor and are at a loss for expressions to describe the horror of it. The scourge of God, the destroyer of nations, are the dreadful epithets by which they distinguish the most noted of the barbarous leaders; and they compare the ruin which they had brought on the world to the havoc occasioned by earthquakes, conflagrations, or deluges, the most formidable and fatal calamities which the imagination of man can conceive."But the subtle design which the serpent or dragon had in view, when he vomited out of his mouth a flood of waters, was most providentially frustrated; for: -

Defender: Rev 12:15 - as a flood

This is a symbolic flood, for it is cast out of the mouth of the symbolic serpent. The devil-energized "beast" (Rev 13:4), having disrupted the temple worship in Jerusalem by placing his own image there to be worshipped (Rev 13:15; Mat 24:15), then seeking to execute all who refuse to do so, will be enraged at the Jews in particular, and will send a "flood" after them. This will probably be a flood of military might - armies, artillery, airplanes - but God will destroy them all, just as He did long ago with Pharaoh's hosts (Psa 124:1-6; Isa 59:19)."

TSK: Rev 12:15 - cast

cast : Rev 17:15; Psa 18:4, Psa 65:7, Psa 93:3, Psa 93:4; Isa 8:7, Isa 28:2, Isa 59:19

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Poole: Rev 12:15 - And the serpent // Cast out of his mouth water as a flood // That he might cause her to be carried away of the flood

And the serpent the devil, the old serpent, mentioned Rev 12:9 , being able no longer to execute his malice as a dragon, by the civil power of the heathen emperors, tearing Christians in pieces, but discerning the church secured by the special providence of God, went to work another way.

Cast out of his mouth water as a flood corrupting the judgments of several persons, who, out of the abundance of error in their hearts, preached corrupt doctrine. Such were the followers of Arius, Nestorius, Eutyches, Pelagius, &c. The words of a man’ s mouth are as deep waters, Pro 18:4 . The mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things, Pro 15:28 .

That he might cause her to be carried away of the flood on purpose to ruin the church: and, indeed, such were the ill effects of these heresies, that he who is but meanly versed in the history of the fifth age, will see reason to adore the providence of God, that the Roman emperors, upon the sight of them, did not again turn pagans, and add their force to the malice of these pretended Christians against the sincerer part of the church.

PBC: Rev 12:15

Satan’s power is limited. He cannot rise to the heights of the Holy Spirit. The water spewed out of his mouth can never satisfy the Church as can the Water of Life. Satan may tug at the skirts of the Church, but he can never swallow her up.— Eld. Charles Taylor

Haydock: Rev 12:15 - The serpent

The serpent (the dragon, the devil) came out of his mouth, &c. He endeavoured to destroy Christian religion; but the earth, that is, the princes of the earth, as God was pleased to turn their hearts, helped to turn away the persecutions. (Witham) ---

As a last effort, the devil raises a more bloody persecution than was ever known before. See Eusebius, History of the Church.

Gill: Rev 12:15 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood // after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood

And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood,.... Which cannot design any persecution before the fall of Paganism, either of the Jews, or of the Romans; nor indeed the Arian persecution, since the casting out of this flood is distinguished from the above persecution, and was after the church began to flee upon that persecution; though it is not unusual for wicked persecutors, and violent persecutions, to be expressed by waters, and they are called proud waters, Psa 124:1; and these may be said to be cast out of the mouth of the serpent, the devil, who was a persecutor and a murderer from the beginning, and by whom all persecutors and persecutions are instigated, moved, and carried on; but rather, as the words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, Pro 18:4; and doctrines, good or bad, may be so called; that flood of errors and heresies, which were poured in between the times of Constantine and the rise of antichrist may be here intended; such as the Arian heresy, which denied the divinity of Christ; the Nestorian heresy, which divided his person; and the Eutychian heresy, which confounded the two natures in him; and the Macedonian heresy, which took away the deity of the Holy Ghost; and the Pelagian heresy, which destroyed the grace of God, and set up the power of man's free will: and this flood of errors and heresies may be truly said to be cast out of the serpent's mouth; since the old serpent, the devil, is the father of all lies, and errors: and the above heresies are the doctrines of devils, and damnable ones; and were designed by Satan to destroy the souls of men, and ruin the church: though since this flood followed upon the Arian persecution, and was after the church began to flee, being supported and secured by the two divisions of the empire, eastern and western, the wings of the Roman eagle, it seems best by this flood to understand the irruption of the barbarous nations, which quickly followed that division; the Goths, Huns, Vandals, Heruli, Alans, and Lombards, who were poured into the western empire, and overran, and at last destroyed it; so that this flood is contemporary with the first four trumpets; after which followed the swarms of locusts, the Saracens, which infested, teased, and tormented the "eastern" empire; and after them the Turks, the four angels bound at the great river Euphrates, were let loose, and like a mighty torrent overflowed, and utterly destroyed it; and all this was done at the instigation of Satan, he being filled with wrath, because the empire was become Christian, and his view was to destroy the church in it: for this flood was cast

after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood; along with the empire, and be no more; but his designs were frustrated, and he disappointed; so people, nations, and tongues, are compared to waters in Rev 17:15; see Isa 8:7, which the Targum interprets of the armies of much people.