Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.
Here we see that early prophecy eminently fulfilled in which God said he would put enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, Gen 3:15. You will observe, I. The attempts of Satan and his agents to prevent the increase of the church, by devouring her offspring as soon as it was born; of this we have a very lively...
Commenting on Revelation 12:1-11
And there appeared another wonder in heaven,.... Or "sign"; which represents the woman, or the church's adversary, Satan; not that he was in heaven, in the third heaven, the place of glory and happiness, for out of that he had been cast long ago; but in his great power and authority here on, earth, particularly in the Roman empire, where the church was labouring to...
Verse 3. And there appeared another wonder in heaven. Represented as in heaven. Barnes on "Re 12:1". That is, he saw this as occurring at the time when the church was thus about to increase. And behold a great red dragon. The word rendered dragon --δρακων-- occurs, in the New Testament, only in the book of Revelation, where it is uniformly rendered as here--dragon: .