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 their position has changed; and, then on earth as affecting the Jews, during the period in which God’s purpose, and therefore those interested in it, as a body, flee, in consequence of the dragon’s actings, into the wilderness, where they are nourished of God; i.e. not in the order of God’s regulated covenant blessing, apparent in manifested relationship, but supremely as such; all this time, therefore, of the dragon’s prevalence in heaven first, or on earth, is the time of the hiding and apparent disregard of God’s relationship with his people, although the object of these relationships becomes visible when the earth comes in question, and the woman, though persecuted or fleeing, is seen on earth; i.e. the Jewish body as such in