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Revelation 20:1
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Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven holding the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
And I saw an Angel come down from heauen, hauing the key of the bottomles pit, & a great chaine in his hand.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
I saw an angel coming down from heaven. He had the key to the bottomless pit and a large chain in his hand.
I saw an Angel descending out of Heaven. He carried the key to the Abyss and a chain—a huge chain. He grabbed the Dragon, that old Snake—the very Devil, Satan himself!—chained him up for a thousand years, dumped him into the Abyss, slammed it shut and sealed it tight. No more trouble out of him, deceiving the nations—until the thousand years are up. After that he has to be let loose briefly.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
I saw an angel come down from heaven, carrying the key to the deep pit and a big chain.
Next I saw an angel coming down from heaven, who had the key to the Abyss and a great chain in his hand.
And I saw an angel descending from the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.
I saw an angel coming down out of heaven. The angel had the key to the bottomless pit. The angel also held a large chain in his hand.
And I sawe an Angel come downe from heauen, hauing the keye of the bottomles pit, and a great chaine in his hand.
AND I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the abyss and a heavy chain.
And I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
And I saw an angel coming down out of Heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain on his hand.
And then I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding the key of the abyss (the bottomless pit) and a great chain was in his hand.
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the great deep and a great chain in his hand.
I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
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AND I saw an angel descending from heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.
And I saw an angel that descended from heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.
And I sawe an angel come downe from heauen hauyng the key of the bottomelesse pytte, and a great chaine in his hand
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
And I saw an angel descending out of heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand.
Then I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and upon his arm he carried a great chain.
And Y say an aungel comynge doun fro heuene, hauynge the keie of depnesse, and a greet chayne in his hoond.
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Then I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the bottomless pit and a heavy chain in his hand.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven. He had in his hand a key to the hole without a bottom. He also had a strong chain.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.
And I saw a messenger, coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain upon his hand;
And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain.
And I sawe an angell come doune from heven havinge the kaye of the bottomlesse pyt and a gret chayne in his honde.
And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand,
And I sawe an angell come downe from heauen, hauinge the keye of the bottomlesse pyt, and a gret chayne in his honde.
Afterwards I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, with a great chain in his hand.
Then an angel rode out of heaven carrying the key to the bottomless pit and a heavy chain.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I saw: Revelation 10:1, Revelation 18:1
having: Revelation 1:18, Revelation 9:1, Revelation 9:2, Luke 8:31
a great: 2 Peter 2:4, Jude 1:6
Reciprocal: Genesis 3:15 - it shall Job 2:6 - save Job 21:22 - he judgeth Job 33:28 - will deliver Psalms 68:20 - unto Psalms 72:11 - all nations Psalms 91:13 - the dragon Isaiah 35:9 - No lion Isaiah 59:19 - the Spirit Isaiah 63:3 - and of the people Daniel 7:9 - till Zechariah 9:8 - no Zechariah 13:2 - unclean Matthew 8:31 - General Matthew 12:29 - General Matthew 16:19 - the keys Matthew 22:44 - till Mark 3:27 - General Mark 4:31 - is less than Mark 5:7 - that Luke 8:28 - I beseech Luke 11:22 - General Acts 2:35 - thy foes Romans 16:20 - shall Revelation 11:17 - thou hast Revelation 16:17 - into Revelation 20:3 - cast
Cross-References
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And I saw an angel come down from heaven,.... All Christ's enemies, and Satan's instruments being removed, the devil is left alone, and only stands in the way of Christ's kingdom; and what will be done to him, and how he will be in the issue disposed of, this vision gives an account: by the "angel" John saw, is not to be understood Constantine the great; for though he is the man child that was taken up to God, and his throne, being advanced to the empire, yet he cannot, with that propriety, be said to come down from heaven; and though he vanquished the Heathen emperors, in which the dragon presided, and cast Paganism out of the empire, by which the devil ruled in it, yet the binding of Satan is another kind of work, and seems too great for him; and besides, did not take place in his time, as will be seen hereafter: nor is an apostle, or a minister of the Gospel intended; such are indeed called angels in this book, and may be said to come down from heaven, because they have their commission from thence; and particularly the apostles had the keys of the kingdom of heaven, but not the key of the bottomless pit; and a chain and system of Gospel truths, which they made good use of for the establishing of Christ's kingdom, and weakening of Satan's, but not such a chain as is here meant; and they had the power of binding and loosing, or of declaring things lawful or unlawful, but not of binding and loosing of Satan; nor was he bound in the apostolic age: nor is one of the ministering spirits, or a deputation of angels designed; for though Christ will be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, and will make use of them, both to gather together his elect, and to cast the wicked into the lake of fire, yet not to bind Satan; but the Lord Jesus Christ himself is this angel, who is the angel of God's presence, and of the covenant; and who is in this book called an angel, Revelation 7:2 to whom all the characters here well agree, and to whom the work of binding Satan most properly belongs; for who so fit to do it, or so capable of it, as the seed of the woman, that has bruised serpent's head, or as the Son of God, who was manifested to destroy the works of the devil, yea, to destroy him himself; and who dispossessed multitudes of devils from the bodies of men, and is the strong man armed that dislodges Satan from the souls of men, and is the same with Michael, who drove him from heaven, and cast him out from thence before,
Revelation 12:7. And his coming down from heaven is not to be understood of his incarnation, or of his coming from thence by the assumption of human nature; for Satan was not bound by him then, as will be seen hereafter; but of his second coming, which will be from heaven, where he now is, and will be local, visible, and personal: of no other coming of his does this book speak, as seen by John, or as future; nor will the order of this vision, after the ruin of the beast and false prophet, admit of any other.
Having the key of the bottomless pit: the abyss or deep, the same out of which the beast ascended, Revelation 11:7. And the key of this becomes no hand so well as his who has the keys of hell and death, Revelation 1:18 who has all power in heaven and in earth, and has the power of hell, of opening and shutting it at his pleasure, which is signified by this phase; see Revelation 9:1. The Ethiopic version reads, "the key of the sun", where some have thought hell to be; and yet the same version renders the word, the deep, in Revelation 20:3.
And a great chain in his hand; the key in one hand, and the chain in another; by which last is meant, not any material chain, with which spirits cannot be bound, nor indeed sometimes bodies possessed by evil spirits, Mark 5:3 but the almighty power of Christ, which he will now display in binding Satan faster and closer than ever.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And I saw an angel come down from heaven - Compare the notes on Revelation 10:1. He does not say whether this angel had appeared to him before, but the impression is rather that it was a different one. The whole character of the composition of the book leads us to suppose that different angels were employed to make these communications to John, and that, in fact, in the progress of things disclosed in the book, he had contact with a considerable number of the heavenly inhabitants. The scene that is recorded here occurred after the destruction of the beast and the false prophet Revelation 19:18-21, and therefore, according to the principles expressed in the explanation of the previous chapters, what is intended to be described here will take place after the final destruction of the papal and Muhammedan powers.
Having the key of the bottomless pit - See the notes on Revelation 1:18; Revelation 9:1. The fact that he has the key of that underworld is designed to denote here, that he can fasten it on Satan so that it shall become his prison.
And a great chain in his hand - With which to bind the dragon, Revelation 20:2. It is called great because of the strength of him that was to be bound. The chain only appears to have been in his hand. Perhaps the key was suspended to his side.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XX.
An angel binds Satan a thousand years, and shuts him up in the
bottomless pit, 1-3.
They who were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, who have
part in the first resurrection, and shall reign with Christ
a thousand years, 4-6.
When the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out
of his prison, shall go forth and deceive the nations, and
shall gather Gog and Magog from the four corners of the earth,
7, 8.
These shall besiege the holy city; but fire shall come down
from heaven and consume them, and they and the devil be cast
into a lake of fire, 9, 10.
The great white throne, and the dead, small and great, standing
before God, and all judged according to their works, 11, 12.
The sea, death, and hades, give up their dead, and are
destroyed; and all not found in the book of life are cast into
the lake of fire, 13-15.
NOTES ON CHAP. XX.
Verse Revelation 20:1. An angel came down from heaven — One of the executors of the Divine justice, who receives criminals, and keeps them in prison, and delivers them up only to be tried and executed.
The key of the prison and the chain show who he is; and as the chain was great, it shows that the culprit was impeached of no ordinary crimes.
