The effect on the woman was her retreat into solitude and sorrow, for so she is seen in actual effect.
Here are the parties: the seventh verse begins a new topic.
There was war in heaven. This was not the war of the Church, but of Divine power; not yet, however, in the manifested energy of the Son of Man, the mighty man, the man-child; but in the more secret agencies of his will, angelic ministrations. The Church’s war, carried on in the flesh, is carried on in suffering, and waged against the accuser, by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, he being always there; and yet they above him, as an overcome enemy in Christ, in their flesh wretched, and as to that, in its will under his power; but here it was, power to expel, in service to God,—the question settled whether the dragon and his angels should continue there—“and the dragon fought, and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven; and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world, he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him.” Then came the celebration; and, in the
