Revelation 20:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and he shut him up, and sealed the door upon him, that he should deceive the people [a]no more till the thousand years were fulfilled: for after that he must be loosed for [b]a little season.
4 [c]And I saw [d][e]seats: and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them, and I saw the souls of them that were [f]beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which [g]did not worship the beast, neither his image, neither had taken his mark upon their foreheads or on their hands: and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 [h]But the rest of the dead men [i]shall not live again, until the thousand years be finished: this is the first resurrection.
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- Revelation 20:3 Namely, with that public and violent deceit which he attempted before, Chapter 12, and which after a thousand years (alack for woe) he most mightily procured in the Christian world.
- Revelation 20:3 Which being once expired, the second battle and victory shall be, of which verses 7, 8.
- Revelation 20:4 A description of the common state of the Church of Christ in earth in that space of a thousand years, for which the devil was in bonds: in which first the authority, life, and common honor of the godly, is declared, verse 4. Secondly, newness of life is preached unto others by the Gospel, after that space, verse 5. Finally, he concludeth with promises, verse 6.
- Revelation 20:4 For judgment was committed to them, as to members joined to the head, not [that] Christ’s office was given over [to] them.
- Revelation 20:4 This was a type of the authority of the good and faithful servants of God in the Church, taken from the manner of men.
- Revelation 20:4 Of the Martyrs, which suffered in those first times.
- Revelation 20:4 Of the Martyrs which suffered after that both the beasts were now risen up, Chapter 13, for these three things are expounded.
- Revelation 20:5 Whoever shall lie dead in sin, and not know the truth of God.
- Revelation 20:5 They shall not be renewed with that newness of the life by the enlightening of the Gospel of the glory of Christ. For this is the first resurrection, by which the souls of the godly do rise from their death. In the second resurrection their bodies shall rise again.
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