Rev 12:2 | JFB | STEP | 2. pained — Greek, "tormented" ( basanizomene ). DE BURGH explains this of the bringing in of the first-begotten into the world AGAIN , when Israel shall at last welcome Him, and when "the man-child shall rule all nations with the rod of iron." But there is a plain contrast between the painful travailing of the woman here, and Christ's second coming to the Jewish Church, the believing remnant of Israel, " Before she travailed she brought forth . . . a MAN-CHILD ," that is, almost without travail-pangs, she receives (at His second advent), as if born to her, Messiah and a numerous seed.

Revelation of John 12:2

2. pained—Greek, "tormented" (basanizomene). DE BURGH explains this of the bringing in of the first-begotten into the world AGAIN, when Israel shall at last welcome Him, and when "the man-child shall rule all nations with the rod of iron." But there is a plain contrast between the painful travailing of the woman here, and Christ's second coming to the Jewish Church, the believing remnant of Israel, "Before she travailed she brought forth . . . a MAN-CHILD," that is, almost without travail-pangs, she receives (at His second advent), as if born to her, Messiah and a numerous seed.