Revelation 12:15

And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.
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A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian

AD 255
, by the "violence of the flood which the serpent sent forth from his mouth after the woman."

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
The serpent (the dragon, the devil) came out of his mouth He endeavoured to destroy the Christian religion; but the earth, that is, the princes of the earth, as God was pleased to turn their hearts, helped to turn away the persecutions. (Witham) As a last effort, the devil raises a more bloody persecution than was ever known before. See Eusebius, History of the Church.

Victorinus of Pettau

AD 303
He signifies by the water which the serpent cast out of his mouth, the people who at his command would persecute her.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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