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Revelation 20:2
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
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 o` o;fij o` avrcai/oj After to.n dra,konta the Textus Receptus, following most witnesses (a 046 P most minuscules), reads to.n o;fin to.n avrcai/on, thus avoiding the inconcinnity of...
Verse Revelation 20:2. _THE DRAGON_] Revelation 12:9, Revelation 12:9. _THAT OLD SERPENT, WHICH IS THE DEVIL, AND SATAN_] He who is called the old ser
AND HE LAID HOLD ON - Seized him by violence - ἐκράτησεν ekratēsen. The word denotes “the employment of strength” or “force”; and it implies that he had power superior to that of the dragon. Compar...
CHAPTER S 19-20:6 The Manifestation of the King and the Millennium _ 1. Heavenly hallelujahs and the marriage of the Lamb (Revelation 19:1)_ 2. Heaven opened and His visible manifestation (Revelati...
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MILLENNIUM. Revelation 20:1. key of the abyss: Revelation 9:1 *. CHAIN: _i.e_. manacle or handcuff. Revelation 20:2. dragon:...
THE THOUSAND YEAR REIGN OF CHRIST AND THE SAINTS (Revelation 20:1-15) Since the great importance of this chapter is that it is what might be called the foundation document of Millennarianism or Chili...
LAID HOLD ON. Greek. _krateo._ Compare App-172. ON. of. DRAGON. See Revelation 12:3. THAT. the. SATAN. The texts add "the". See App-19. THOUSAND YEARS. i.e. the millennium....
_that old serpent_ Revelation 12:9....
Ὁ ὌΦΙΣ Ὁ�. With A: Text. Rec[750] τὸν ὄφιν τὸν άρχαῖον with אB2 cett. [750] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. ὍΣ. Tisch[751] has ὅ with א and Aug. _qui cognominatus est_, Promiss. _qui v...
Revelation 20:1-6. THE BINDING OF SATAN. THE FIRST RESURRECTION...
_SATAN IS BOUND REVELATION 20:1-3:_ Revelation twenty provides a look at the final judgment. We observe that Satan falls and that the people of God enjoy victory. The theme of the book of Revelation c...
ΈΚΡΆΤΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΡΑΤΈΩ (G2902) применять силу, брать под стражу, арестовывать (BAGD; Mounce). ΔΡΆΚΩΝ (G1404) дракон, ΌΦΙΣ (G3789) змей, ΆΡΧΑΪΟΣ (G744) старый, древний, ΈΔΗΣΕΝ _aor. i...
AND I SAW AN ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVENS &C.— After the destruction of the beast, and the false prophet,there still remains the _dragon,_ who had delegated his power unto them; _that old serpent, whi...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XX THE THOUSAND YEARS _Text (Revelation 20:1-15)_ INTRODUCTION 1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his ha...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 65 Text Revelation 20:1-3 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old...
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, THAT OLD - ancient (). THOUSAND YEARS. As seven implies universality, so a thousan...
__ Temple Section-The Great Dinner 11 Contrast this scene with His entry into Jerusalem (Mat_21:1-9 etc.). There He presented Himself as their _ King_, lowly, and mounted as any poor peasant would r...
20:2 Satan, (c-16) Lit. 'the Satan.' The adversary. see ch. 12.9....
FOR A THOUSAND YEARS the devil will be bound and shut up in the abode of spiritual evil (the 'abyss,' see on Revelation 9:1, not 'the lake of fire,' which is the place of final punishment, see on Reve...
SATAN CONQUERED. THE LAST JUDGMENT In this chapter the visions of the overthrow of Christ's enemies are continued. The devil is bound for 1,000 years (Revelation 20:1); the martyrs reign with Christ f...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 20 THE RULE OF CHRIST - REVELATION 20:1-15 THE *ANGEL BINDS *SATAN - REVELATION 20:1-3...
AND HE LAID HOLD ON THE DRAGON... — Or, _And he laid hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years._ The four words are thus used to describe the...
CHAPTER XVI. JUDGMENT OF SATAN AND OF THE WICKED. Revelation 20:1. IN now approaching chap. 20, with its yet unsolved difficulties of interpretation, it is of essential importance to observe, in the...
The dragon is flung by an angel, not by God or messiah, into the pit of the abyss which formed his original haunt (_cf._ on Revelation 9:1), and there locked up, like an Arabian jin, so as to leave th...
THE MILLENNIAL REIGN Revelation 20:1 In the preceding chapter the beast and the false prophet are depicted as meeting their punishment in the lake of fire. In this, the devil, death, and Hades are co...
Victory having been gained over the earthly manifestation of godlessness, it remains to deal with the power lying behind. The archenemy is described as "the dragon," "the old serpent," "the devil," an...
THE BINDING OF SATAN One of God's angelic messengers is portrayed as being sent down from heaven with a key to the abyss. In the New Testament, “abyss” is particularly used of the abode of demons and...
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him (3) a thousand years, (3) The first of which (continuing this history with the end of the second chapter)...
And bound him for a thousand years. I shall give the reader an abridgment of what St. Augustine has left us on this chapter, in this 20th book de Civ. Dei [The City of God]. From the 5th to the 16th c...
(1) And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. (2) And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, a...
It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the chronological course of the prophecy. It is a description, and not one o...
A Thousand Years I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we saw the KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS victorious at the battle of Armageddon! 1. All those that opposed the lord and His saints were killed and a...
We now come, evil power having been set aside, to the exercise of judicial authority in peace; and this is conferred on the saints. The prophet does not merely see the thrones as set in Daniel 7., but...
Ver. 2 AND HE LAID HOLD ON THE DRAGON,.... By whom is meant not Paganism, for that was destroyed in the Roman empire under the sixth seal, and was the consequence of the war between Michael and his an...
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, Ver. 2. _And he laid hold on the dragon_] Revelation 12:7; Revelation 12:9. He took hi...
_And I saw an angel_ An especial minister of Providence; _come down from heaven_ With a commission from God; _having the key of the bottomless pit_ Invested with power to open or to shut it; see on Re...
SATAN; though his agents, the beast, the false prophet, and those who cooperated with them, had been destroyed, Satan still lived, and if permitted, would tempt men to persecute the church....
SATAN BOUND FOR 1000 YEARS Though the Beast and the False Prophet have been (inRevelation 19:1) consigned to the Lake of Fire, the wicked spirit Satan who influenced them is not immediately sent there...
_ 1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and...
1-3 Here is a vision, showing by a figure the restraints laid on Satan himself. Christ, with Almighty power, will keep the devil from deceiving mankind as he has hitherto done. He never wants power an...
There can be no question who is meant by THE DRAGON here, and the OLD SERPENT, for the Holy Ghost interpreteth it, THE DEVIL, the enemy of mankind. AND BOUND HIM: by binding also is meant the restrain...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III -indicating that sin, which was set up and spread out against man, and which rendered him subject to death, should be deprived of its power, along with death, which...
Revelation 20:2 G2532 hold G2902 (G5656) dragon G1404 serpent G3789 old G744 who G3739 is G2076 ...
VISION 8 THE HISTORY OF SATAN AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD (REVELATION 20:1). This passage is of special significance. Indeed it determines greatly what view we take of the whole overall doctrine of the Sec...
‘And I saw an angel coming down out of Heaven having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand, and he laid hold on the monster, the old Serpent who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for...
Revelation 20:2. AND HE LAID HOLD ON THE DRAGON, THE OLD SERPENT, WHICH IS THE DEVIL AND SATAN. This dragon we have already met at chaps. Revelation 12:3; Revelation 12:9;...
It is unnecessary to say anything of the difficulties attending the interpretation of the passage upon which we now enter, or to bespeak the indulgence of the reader. Let it be enough in the meantime...
HE LAID HOLD ON (εκρατησεν). First aorist active indicative of κρατεω, to seize.THE DRAGON (τον δρακοντα). Accusative after εκρατησεν instead of the genitive as in Revelation 2:1. He has been beh...
THOUSAND YEARS The duration of the kingdom of heaven in its mediatorial form. (_ See Scofield) - (1 Corinthians 15:24). _...
CONTENTS: Satan bound for the Kingdom age. The first resurrection. Satan loosed at the end of the millenium, and his final doom. Judgment of the great White Throne. CONCLUSION: When the Tribulation da...
Revelation 20:1. _I saw an angel come down from heaven,_ the high sheriff, as it were, with a divine commission, probably the same angel who had descended with glory like a morning star, and unlocked...
AND TIED HIM UP FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. Christ broke the power of Satan by dying on the cross (Luke 9:31)_. In the vision,_ we see Satan tied up with a heavy chain, thrown into the abyss, which is then...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 20:1 These verses, the last of three “interludes” in Revelation 1:1 (see note on 7:1–17), are among the most controversia
John saw an angel come down from heaven with the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on Satan and bound him for a thousand years and cast him into the bottomless...
THE THOUSAND YEARS _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ EMINENT expositors, ancient and modern, regard the opening of this chapter as referring to an early period in the history of the Church, but there a...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 20:1 AND I SAW AN ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN; _coming down out of heaven. _The usual mode of introducing a new vision (cf. Revelation 4:1, etc.). On account of...
CHAPTER 20 - THE DEAD RISE, SATAN IS JUDGED _ _ _ 1 AND I SAW AN ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND._ _ 2 AND HE LAID HOLD ON THE DRA...
I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand (Revelation 20:1). Now, earlier under the fifth trumpet there was a fallen angel that had the k...
1 Peter 5:8; 2 Peter 2:4; Genesis 3:15; Hebrews 2:14; Isaiah 27:1;...
He laid hold [ε κ ρ α τ η σ ε ν]. See on Mark 8:3; Acts 3:11.. The dragon [τ ο ν δ ρ α κ ο ν τ α]. See on ch. Revelation 12:3. The word is commonly derived from edrakon, the second aorist tense of der...
THE FIRST AND LAST RESURRECTIONS Revelation 20:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Perhaps we had better take up briefly the various judgments as preparatory for the study of the first and last resurrections. The...
And he laid hold on the dragon — With whom undoubtedly his angels were now cast into the bottomless pit, as well as finally "into everlasting fire," Matthew 25:41. And bound him a thousand years — Tha...