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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Oecumenius
Regarding the Antichrist, the vision that is more complete wishes to be recorded for us, of which a brief mention has been made in the preceding texts. However, since the resurrection of this figure and his appointment by Satan as a pretext for the Incarnation of the Lord have occurred, having taken possession of and subjected the world, the Antichrist will be raised for this very reason. He will then attempt to lead the world away from Christ and persuade it to defect to Satan through apostasy. …
Dionysius bar Salibi
A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. And when she was pregnant, she shouted and in labor was struggling to give birth—That here indicates the persecutions and vexations that the church must suffer by the Antichrist. For he calls the church the woman; clothed with the sun, because she is clothed with the paternal word that shines more than the sun. And the moon under her feet—adorned with heavenly beauty like the moon. …
Methodius of Olympus
-Exhortation to the Cultivation of Virginity; A Passage from the Apocalypse is Proposed to Be Examined. John, in the course of the Apocalypse, says:
Western Saints
Bede
The woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet. The Church of Christ, clothed in light, tramples upon temporal glory: In his days shall righteousness flourish, and abundance of peace until the moon be no more (Psalm LXXII). That is, the abundance of peace will grow until it consumes all the changeableness of mortality, when the last enemy, death, is destroyed (1 Corinthians XV). Or, because the same Church, partly in heaven, enjoys Christ the sun, partly on earth, journeys away from the Lord. …
Bonaventure
And so the soul is a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, for it is full of lights and never turns its eyes away from light. And because in this life we cannot remain intent upon any one object, therefore the soul has twelve matters like twelve stars around which it always moves as in a circle, as the sun runs through the twelve constellations, that is, the twelve signs of the zodiac and never goes outside of them. …
Alcuin of York
And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet. The woman clothed with the sun is blessed Virgin Mary, covered with the power of the Most High. A genus, namely the Church, is also understood in her. The Church is not called a woman by reason of weakness, but because it gives birth every day to new people, with whom the general body of Christ is being formed. So the Church is clothed with the sun according to this: As many of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ. [Gal. …
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