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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Oecumenius
The present passage is a repetition of what has been said before; for it does not mean that immediately after the Dragon saw that he had been cast down to the earth, he pursued the woman, but rather that when the Dragon saw himself existing in such evils, and that he had fallen from angelic dignity, he became exceedingly bitter against humanity, and pursued the woman who had borne the Savior of mankind, in order to destroy her. …
Dionysius bar Salibi
He pursued the woman who had given birth to the male; and she was given two wings of that great eagle, to fly into the desert: to be nourished there a time and times and half a time, away from the serpent's face—The time etc. are those thousand two hundred and sixty days or half week, when the pseudo-Christ will seize and persecute the Church, who will flee from place to place and hide herself in the mountains and in the desert. …
Western Saints
Bede
And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, etc. The devil, attacking the Church with inextricable cunning, persecutes all the more intensely the more he is cast down.
Hippolytus of Rome
"And the dragon," he says, "saw and persecuted the woman which brought forth the man-child. And to the woman were given two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent." That refers to the one thousand two hundred and threescore days (the half of the week) during which the tyrant is to reign and persecute the Church, which flees from city to city, and seeks conceal-meat in the wilderness among the mountains, possessed of …
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