...preceding chapter, that John had hitherto beheld what passed in heaven. " A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." A sign, and a very beautiful image of the primitive Church in a state of pregnancy, resplendent on...

...the figure of the number one hundred and forty-four thousand, are but the parts and members of that woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and having on her head a crown of twelve stars ; pregnant with, and about to give birth to, the man child...

...great hail. XII. — And there appeared a great sign in heaven — a woman, clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; and she being pregnant, cried out in travail, and in pangs to he delivered. And there appeared another...

...woman clothed with the sun. AND a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars : 2 And being with child, she cried travailing in birth, and was in pain to be delivered. 3 And there...

...twelve stars. What a description is this of the church of Christ Jesus our Lord ! clothed with the Sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. But how soon we see in the prophetic vision her tribulation, her sufferings, her afflictions, the hand...

...the audacity of her pretensions. She boldly asserts that she is the Woman in the Revelations, who has the Moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars ; the twelve stars being her twelve Apostles, who, with the second dozen of believers, made up her...

...same glorious person gives the promise of ' the Morning Star.' A woman appears, clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head ' a crown of twelve stars.' These can be no fortuitous, no borrowed, no accidental allusions. The Wonderful Councillor who reveals...

...doctrines. She fancied herself the woman foretold in Rev. ch. xii. , clothed with the sun, and having the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She does not appear in the beginning of her career to have made any proselytes, and Mr White is the...

...OF CONFESSORS, Pray for us. " And a great sign appeared in heaven. A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." — APOCALYPSE, xii. 1. THIS is understood by some holy fathers of the blessed Virgin. She is clothed...

...more immediate connection with the true church which is described as " a woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars," all this is most clearly expressed to belong to, and to describe the history of, the Roman empire,...