Woman, Child, Dragon
¥What should we make of this?
¥RH Charles has John borrowing from paganism.
¥CS Lewis, in PilgrimÕs Regress and in Till We Have Faces, suggests that God implanted stories among the pagans, which (though distorted & corrupted by them) still testify to GodÕs redemptive purpose.
¥This would fit JesusÕ remark in John 12:23-24 (when Greeks came to him) about a grain of wheat dying & rising to produce many seeds.