![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The symbols here are easily understood when interpreted through other texts in the Bible. This phase of the narrative ends with the line: “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Revelation 12:17). The child is spared but the dragon goes after the woman, who hides someone on the earth. The red dragon then stands before the woman who is about to give birth so that it can “devour her child the moment it was born” (Revelation 12:4). This woman in heaven is pregnant and, as she is about to give birth, “an enormous red dragon with seven heads and 10 horns and seven crowns on his heads” (Revelation 12:3) appears, sweeps with his tail “a third of the stars out of the sky,” and casts them to the earth (Revelation 12:3). The final book of the Bible, called Revelation, works in a similar way: symbols and images are used to represent truths and themes greater than the symbols and images themselves.įor instance, in Revelation 12, a woman appears in heaven “clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head” (Revelation 12:1). Though expressing spiritual and Christian themes, both the book and movie do so in symbols and images and metaphors that represent themes and ideas bigger and more important than the symbols themselves. “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” is a fantasy movie based on a book with the same name by C.S. ![]()
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