And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Pained - `tormented' х basanizomenee (G928)]. DeBurgh explains this, the bringing in of the first-begotten into the world AGAIN, when Israel shall at last welcome Him, and 'the man-child shall rule all nations with the rod of iron.' But there is a contrast between the painful travailing of the woman and Christ's second coming to the Jewish Church. Isaiah 66:7-8, "Before she travailed, she brought forth ... a MAN-CHILD" - i:e., without travail-pangs, she receives (at His second advent), as born to her, Messiah and a numerous seed.