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To: redleghunter

This looks like commentary calling Mary the woman in Revelations or similar to Her could be better said. It’s not a big deal to call Mary the woman in Revelations.

http://matt1618.freeyellow.com/woman.html

But it’s not really easy to answer and I’m no Bible scholar.

“What do we say about the option that both Rhodes and Geisler give us as the woman being the Nation of Israel? The main problem is that this option totally misses the main point of what the woman does in Revelation 12. In Rev. 12:2, the ‘woman’ is one that gives birth to the child. In v. 5, the ‘woman’ again is referred to as one who brings forth a male child who will rule. Now, who does the Bible say is the woman who brings forth a male child? In Isaiah 7:14, there is a prophecy of a virgin (or as the RSV says, a young ‘woman’) who will give birth to a child. That of course is a prophecy on the virginity of the woman. The woman happens to be Mary, not Israel.”

But nothing I’m going to be worried about.

I don’t know if there is an Official Roman Catholic Church interpretation calling Mary the woman in Apocalypse/Revelations.


323 posted on 06/02/2014 1:34:18 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: BeadCounter

Most of the Early Church fathers saw the woman in Rev as Israel.


330 posted on 06/02/2014 2:05:56 PM PDT by bkaycee (John 3:16)
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To: BeadCounter
I don’t know if there is an Official Roman Catholic Church interpretation calling Mary the woman in Apocalypse/Revelations.

In my days of Jesuit university I have seen the Rev 12 references mentioned as both Mary and Israel. And they can be. We should be cautious, however, building doctrines on such prophetic images.

351 posted on 06/02/2014 3:53:23 PM PDT by redleghunter (But let your word 'yes be 'yes,' and your 'no be 'no.' Anything more than this is from the evil one.)
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