But he touches upon a few things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ and his mother, and concerning the opposition of the devil. Joining past things with future things, he says that God ascended to heaven and that his mother was to be preserved at a certain time in secret places, that he might nourish her there for three-and-a-half years. This passage, as Tyconius relates, contains great mystery.[FN42]
...
Again, there is a mention of Christ the Lord and his mother, in that the devil, believing that he could hurt the mother, sent from his mouth an immense river and thought that it would drown her. But she, having been taken to a very safe place, evaded the poison of diabolic fraud.
[FN 42. Cf. Eph 5.32; Tyconius (Exposition of the Apocalypse, on Rv 12.6, CCSL 107A: 178, FC 134: 127) wrote that the woman nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days symbolizes the Church nourished on heavenly teaching from the birth of Christ up to the end of the world.]
Cassiodorus (footnote is translator's) in Fathers of the Church, Vol. 144, Cassiodorus, St. Gregory the Great, and Anonymous Greek Scholia, Writings on the Apocalypse, Chapter 12, section 16. [1-6] and [13-16], pp. 27-28 Francis X. Gumerlock, Trans.
