Travailing (with child) is a symbol of great endeavours to bring something to pass, not without much difficulty, pain, and danger. And the compassing the end, which persons represented by this symbol aimed at, is a delivery of what they were big with, and a deliverance from the pain and danger they laboured under. Hence, the symbol of travailing with child is often used in the prophets to denote a state of anguish and misery; as in Isa 26:17-18; Isa 66:7; Jer 4:31; Jer 13:21; Jer 30:6-7; Mic 4:9-10. And so also in the New Testament, the pains of childbearing are used to signify the sorrow of tribulation or persecution; as in Mat 24:8; Mar 13:8; Joh 16:21-22; 1Th 5:3. And St. Paul applies the expression to the propagation of the Gospel through persecutions, Gal 4:19, “My little children of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,” i.e. for whom I am concerned and in fear, till the Christian doctrine has overcome in you the habits of sin. And in Rom 8:22, he compares the earnest desire of the creation for the kingdom of Christ, to the pains of a woman in travail.<\/p>\n
The same metaphor is not unusual in Pagan authors; and Tully hath it more than once.f1 It is likewise understood by the Persian and Egyptian Interpreters of affliction and cares, in ch. cxxvii.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, the symbol of the birth betokens joy and deliverance; and especially if the child be a male; as in Joh 16:21. And in Isa 66:7, where the man-child is interpreted by the Targum of a king, a deliverer.<\/p>\n
Agreeably to this Artemidorus, in L. i. c. 16, says, “Male children bring good success;” and in the preceding chapter his words are, “for a poor man, a debtor, and a slave, and any one that is in any bad circumstances whatsoever, to dream that he brings forth a child, signifies that he shall clear himself of all his grievances. And the reason is plain, because it is a deliverance from the pains, in which he was before, signified by the pregnancy.<\/p>\n
Parturition also signifies the birth of a community, either ecclesiastical or civil, according as the tenor of the prophecy shall determine, Isa 66:8; Rev 12:2; Rev 12:5.<\/p>\n
F1 M. T. C. pro. Muren. & Phil 2.<\/p>\n
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