Revelation 20:3 (WEB)
and cast him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
Fathers and councils · 4
Tertullian
“…the chief thereof, the devil, shall “go away into the fire which God hath prepared for him and his angels”—having been first “cast into the bottomless pit;” when likewise “the manifestation of the children of God” shall have “delivered the creature” from evil, which had been “made subject to vanity;” when the…” — editor's note: Rev. xx. 3.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“To these belong his statement that there will be a period of some thousand years after the resurrection of the dead, and that the kingdom of Christ will be set up in material form on this very earth.” — editor's note: Chiliasm, or millennarianism,—that is, the belief in a visible reign of Christ on earth for a thousand years before the general judgment,—was very widespread…
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Augustine of Hippo
“In these thoughts, as in a bottomless pit, the devil hath been bound, he roareth and breaketh not forth.” — editor's note: Vide Rev. xx. 3.
Read the whole comment“Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.”” — editor's note: Rev. xx. 1–6. The whole passage is quoted.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 11.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in Church History III.39.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 11.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 11.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 11.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.