Revelation 20:2
1599 Geneva Bible
2 And he took the dragon that old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and he bound him [a]a thousand years:
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- Revelation 20:2 The first whereof (continuing this history with the end of chapter 12) is the 36 year from the passion of Christ, when the Church of the Jews being overthrown, Satan assayed to invade the Christian Church gathered of the Gentiles, and to destroy part of her seed, Rev. 12:17. The thousandth year falleth precisely upon the times of that wicked Hildebrand, who was called Gregory the seventh a most damnable Necromancer and sorcerer, whom Satan used as an instrument when he was loosed out of bonds, thenceforth to annoy the Saints of God with most cruel persecutions, and the whole world with dissentions, and most bloody wars: as Benno the Cardinal reporteth at large. This is the first victory gotten over the dragon in the earth.
Revelation 20:2
New International Version
2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan,(A) and bound him for a thousand years.(B)
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