Much is written about ‘the woman of the
‘Apocalypse.’ (Chapter 12) Wikipedia has much on the Roman Catholic
teaching that the woman is the Virgin Mary.
Wikipedia also gives the definition in Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 561:22-25): “The woman in the Apocalypse
symbolizes generic man, the spiritual idea of God; she illustrates the
coincidence of God and man as the divine Principle and divine idea.”
Science
and Health says further: “As Elias
presented the idea of the fatherhood of God, which Jesus afterwards manifested,
so the Revelator completed this figure with woman, typifying the spiritual idea
of God’s motherhood” (p. 562:3-7).
In Mrs. Eddy’s Message to The Mother Church
for 1900 we find, “The Revelation of St. John in the apostolic age is
symbolic, rather than personal or historical” (p. 12:27-28).
How important this twelfth chapter of Revelation is!
I think I can comprehend to a small degree what Mrs. Eddy says: “The twelfth
chapter of the Apocalypse typifies the divine method of warfare in Science, and
the glorious results of this warfare. The following chapters depict the
fatal effects of trying to meet error with error. The narrative follows
the order used in Genesis. In Genesis, first the true method of creation is set
forth and then the false. Here, also, the Revelator first exhibits the
true warfare and then the false” (p. 568:5).
Joyce Voysey
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