As regards his exegesis of Apc 12, (Gagny,
Scholia, 1550: In Apocalypsin Joannis Apostoli, 274r-278r) Gagny
shows no understanding of the dynamics of the text and only the absence of any
comment on Apoc 12.6 would suggest that he sees the flight of the woman
described there as simply an anticipation of the fight in Apc 12.13. As for the
symbolic meaning of the woman, Gagny prefers her to stand for the church, but
he does include a second exegesis (printed in smaller characters, 277r-278r.),
with the woman as the Virgin Mary, who gives birth to Christ, who is then
persecuted by Herod, or the dragon.
His main “ecclesiastical
interpretation of the chapter naturally has certain details in common with
Colladon. Thus both take robed with the sun to mean “having put on
Christ” (Gagny specifies [274f.] “through baptism”), and both interpret the
moon at her feet to mean “having no regard for earthly things” (Gagny adds
Ruper of Deutz’s exegesis of the moon standing for “heretical doctrines,” also
put forward as a possibility by Sebastian Meyer). (Irena Backus, Reformation
Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg [Oxford Studies
in Historical Theology; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000], 84)
