... with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pain... ...horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stoo... ...man clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and crowned with twelve stars. That which is declared to us by these magnificent figures, is,... ...t the breaking or dawning of the day: “God shall help her in the dawning of the morning.” (Vulg. mane diluculo.) What meaneth this? What day is it w... ... giving her his hand to raise her up; “God shall help her in the dawning of the morning.” To this understanding we may say without exaggeration, “th... ...ught now to stay a little longer on the consideration of the word, mane, in the morning. This word is found not unfrequently in the prophets and the ... ...st whom the great multitude shall come, to gather the spoils of these enemies: “Weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows, and the arrows,... ... of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire.” Ezek. xxxix. 9,10. But in the mystery and text of...