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 {A great sign} (s(886d)eion mega). The first of the visions to
be so described ( 13:3  15:1 ), and it is introduced by (9370)hth(885c)
as in  11:19  12:3 , not by meta tauto or by eidon or by
eidon kai idou as heretofore. This "sign" is really a 	eras
(wonder), as it is so by association in  Mt 24:24  Joh 4:48  Ac
2:22  5:12 . The element of wonder is not in the word s(886d)eion
as in 	eras, but often in the thing itself as in  Lu 21:11  Joh
9:16  Re 13:13ff.  15:1  16:14  19:20 . {A woman} (gun(885c)).
Nominative case in apposition with s(886d)eion. "The first 'sign in
heaven' is a Woman--the earliest appearance of a female figure in
the Apocalyptic vision" (Swete). {Arrayed with the sun}
(peribebl(886d)en(8820)ton h(886c)ion). Perfect passive participle of
periball(935c), with the accusative retained as so often (9 times)
in the Apocalypse. Both Charles and Moffatt see mythological
ideas and sources behind the bold imagery here that leave us all
at sea. Swete understands the Woman to be "the church of the Old
Testament" as "the Mother of whom Christ came after the flesh.
But here, as everywhere in the Book, no sharp dividing line is
drawn between the Church of the Old Testament and the Christian
Society." Certainly she is not the Virgin Mary, as verse  17 
makes clear. Beckwith takes her to be "the heavenly
representative of the people of God, the _ideal_ Zion, which, so
far as it is embodied in concrete realities, is represented alike
by the people of the Old and the New Covenants." John may have in
mind  Isa 7:14  ( Mt 1:23  Lu 1:31 ) as well as  Mic 4:10  Isa
26:17f.  66:7  without a definite picture of Mary. The metaphor
of childbirth is common enough ( Joh 16:21  Ga 4:19 ). The figure
is a bold one with the moon "under her feet" (hupokat(9320)t(936e) pod(936e)
aut(8873)) and "a crown of twelve stars" (stephanos aster(936e)
d(9364)eka), a possible allusion to the twelve tribes ( Jas 1:1  Re
21:12 ) or to the twelve apostles ( Re 21:14 ).

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