Revelation 20:2

KJV

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

— Revelation 20:2, King James Version
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Revelation 20:2, King James Version.

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Study Note

The binding of 'the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, for a thousand years' introduces the most debated passage in the Book of Revelation for Christian eschatology, generating millennialist, amillennialist, and postmillennialist interpretive traditions. The fourfold identification — dragon, ancient serpent, devil, Satan — links the figure to Eden's serpent (Genesis 3), the chaos dragon of Old Testament cosmology, and the adversary of the heavenly court. The binding into 'the abyss' (abyssos) draws on Jewish apocalyptic traditions of angelic imprisonment as a prelude to final judgment. Whether the thousand years is literal, symbolic, or already inaugurated in the church age has occupied interpreters since the second century, with the verse functioning as the organizing text for a wide range of eschatological theologies.

תרגומים נוספים

ASV

And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

YLT

and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,

BBE

And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years,

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