Revelation 12 — Greek text and reception
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Chapter 12
The woman and the dragon
Verse 12:1
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon beneath her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The woman is introduced as a sign and is not named in the verse. Identifications belong to reception or interpretation, not inserted translation.
Reception: R050 (Victorinus tradition; scope 12:1–2).
Verse 12:2
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And she was pregnant, and cries out in labor and torment to give birth.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The narrative moves to present cries out, preserving the vivid labor scene. Pregnancy and travail are explicit parts of the sign.
Reception: R050 (Victorinus tradition; scope 12:1–2).
Verse 12:3
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And another sign was seen in heaven, and look, a great fiery red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Diadems are royal headbands, distinct from the stephanos crown in 12:1.
Reception: R051 (Victorinus tradition; scope 12:3–4).
Verse 12:4
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And his tail drags a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stands before the woman about to give birth, so that when she gives birth he may devour her child.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The tail drags stars and threw them earthward, a source tense shift retained in English. The dragon waits with the purpose of consuming the child at birth.
Reception: R051 (Victorinus tradition; scope 12:3–4).
Verse 12:5
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And she bore a son, a male, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: A son, a male preserves the emphatic, grammatically unusual combination. The shepherding and throne imagery is not expanded into an unstated name.
Reception: R052 (Victorinus tradition; scope 12:5).
Verse 12:6
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, so that there they may nourish her for a thousand two hundred sixty days.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: They may nourish is plural with no named subject in the source. The English does not replace it with a newly identified person.
Reception: R053 (Victorinus tradition; scope 12:6,12:14).
War in heaven
Verse 12:7
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And war arose in heaven: Michael and his angels were to wage war with the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought,
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The Greek construction has Michael and his angels followed by an infinitive of fighting; were to wage war makes its relation intelligible without claiming regular Greek syntax.
Reception: R054 (Victorinus tradition; scope 12:7–9).
Verse 12:8
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
and he did not prevail, nor was a place found for them any more in heaven.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: He did not prevail is singular. The possessive pronoun their is plural, while place remains singular; the shift in reference is preserved.
Reception: R054 (Victorinus tradition; scope 12:7–9).
Verse 12:9
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the great dragon was thrown down, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the one deceiving the whole inhabited world; he was thrown to the earth, and his angels were thrown with him.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The narrator explicitly identifies the dragon as ancient serpent, Devil and Satan. Thrown is repeated for him and his angels, emphasizing their expulsion.
Reception: R054 (Victorinus tradition; scope 12:7–9).
Verse 12:10
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, the one accusing them before our God day and night.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The announcement links God's kingdom and His Christ's authority with the accuser's fall. The accusation had operated day and night before God.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 12:11
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And they conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life until death.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Because of preserves dia with the accusative in both clauses. Life renders psychē; the context is faithfulness even when facing death.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 12:12
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
For this reason rejoice, heavens and those dwelling in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil came down to you, having great fury, knowing that he has a little time.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Heavenly rejoicing and earthly woe are simultaneous consequences of the expulsion. The devil's fury is great because his remaining time is little.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
The dragon pursues the woman
Verse 12:13
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he pursued the woman who bore the male child.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Pursued can carry persecution's force here; the narrated target is the woman who bore the male child, after the dragon is cast earthward.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 12:14
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, away from the face of the serpent.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: A time and times and half a time is retained without replacing the expression with a calculated modern duration.
Reception: R053 (Victorinus tradition; scope 12:6,12:14).
Verse 12:15
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the serpent threw water like a river from his mouth after the woman, to make her swept away by the river.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Water like a river issues from the serpent's mouth. Its purpose is to sweep the woman away; the text does not identify a literal flood or human army.
Reception: R055 (Victorinus tradition; scope 12:15–16).
Verse 12:16
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon threw from his mouth.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The earth is personified as opening its mouth to swallow the river. This action directly counters the dragon's mouth in 12:15.
Reception: R055 (Victorinus tradition; scope 12:15–16).
Verse 12:17
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, those keeping the commandments of God and holding the testimony of Jesus.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The rest of her offspring are described by keeping God's commands and holding Jesus' testimony. No later institution is inserted as their exclusive identity.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 12:18
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And he stood upon the sand of the sea.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: He stood is third-person singular, not I stood. This is a separate source entry, 12:18, though some conventional divisions attach it to 13:1.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.