NONE.filter - rwp Revelation:12:2:

rwp@Galatians:4:19 @{I am in travail} (\din\). I am in birth pangs. Old word for this powerful picture of pain. In N.T. only here, verse 27; strkjv@Revelation:12:2|. {Until Christ be formed in you} (\mechris hou morphthi Christos en humin\). Future temporal clause with \mechris hou\ (until which time) and the first aorist passive subjunctive of \morpho\, late and rare verb, in Plutarch, not in LXX, not in papyri, only here in N.T. This figure is the embryo developing into the child. Paul boldly represents himself as again the mother with birth pangs over them. This is better than to suppose that the Galatians are pregnant mothers (Burton) by a reversal of the picture as in strkjv@1Thessalonians:2:7|.

rwp@Revelation:12:2 @{And she was with child} (\kai en gastri echousa\). Perhaps \estin\ to be supplied or the participle used as a finite verb as in strkjv@10:2|. This is the technical idiom for pregnancy as in strkjv@Matthew:1:18,23|, etc. {Travailing in birth} (\dinousa\). Present active participle of \din\, old verb (from \din\ birth-pangs strkjv@1Thessalonians:5:3|), in N.T. only here and strkjv@Galatians:4:27|. {And in pain} (\kai basanizomen\). "And tormented" (present passive participle of \basaniz\, for which see already strkjv@9:5; strkjv@11:10|), only here in N.T. in sense of childbirth. {To be delivered} (\tekein\). Second aorist active infinitive of \tikt\, to give birth, epexegetical use. Also in verse 4|.