...vision of Patmos, exclaims : " 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, bearing a child in her womb a man-child, who was to rule all nations." (Apoc. xii.) The woman who brings...

...commencement of the 12th chapter of Revelations, John represents Masonry as a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars ; this symbolical representation must be particularly striking to Masons — and it will not be out...

...Canticles applied to Mary ; and also in a passage of the Revelation, " A woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." Hence the radiance of the sun above her head, and the crescent moon beneath her feet. From inevitable...

...stars. The description corresponds closely to that of the Church, as a woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars in Rev. xii. 2. PART III. CHAP. VI. I I-VII. IO. GARDEN of nuts.—Nuts are nowhere else used in Scripture...

...and his angels been cast out headlong into the earth ; and was he not persecuting the woman who was clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head the crown of twelve stars, 'that is, the true Apostolic Church — the Church of the Reformation —...

...XII ; 1, 2. 777-782. And there appeared a great sign in the heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of tivelve stars : and, being with child, she crieth out, struggling in her labour -pains, and agonizing...

...it is the devil. Therefore it is said of the wonder of the woman in the Revelations, " the moon was under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." You may be ready to ask me, who are the twelve stars ? Sir, I answer, the twelve chosen men who strengthen...

...of the virgin Mary; but he was also born in the Spirit of the woman clothed with the Sun, which had the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She also brought forth the man-child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. Ecv. xii. Now...

...the Apocalypse, of the " great sign which appeared in heaven — a woman clothed with the snn, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." This was a favourite subject in the Spanish school, and especially with the great master Murillo. In...

...which we are now to consider, we have the picture of a marvellous Woman, clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars, and she herself agitated and agonizing with the anxieties of parturition. This, the Apostle tells us is...