“And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.”
The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be nourished for 1,260 days - the wilderness recalls Israel's forty-year sojourn and God's protective care in the desert. The 1,260 days (or three-and-a-half years) represents the period of tribulation and testing, the time when God preserves his people even in exile.
Church Fathers on Revelation 12:6
“But the woman fled into the wilderness, and there were given to her two great eagle's wings.” The aid of the great eagle's wings — to wit, the gift of prophets— was given to that Catholic Church, whence in the last times a hundred and forty-four thousands of men should believe in the preaching of Elias; but, moreover, he here says that the rest of the people should be found alive on the coming of the Lord. And the Lord says in the Gospel: “Then let them which are in Judea…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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