And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
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Gill's Exposition
And cast him into the bottomless pit,.... Or deep, into which the devils desired they might not be sent, and which they dreaded as a torment, it may be, because a place of confinement, Luk 8:31 for…
Barnes' Notes
And cast him into the bottomless pit - See the notes on Rev 9:1. A state of peace and prosperity would exist as if Satan, the great disturber, were confined in the nether world as a prisoner. And shut…
Adam Clarke
He should deceive the nations no more - Be unable to blind men with superstition and idolatry as he had formerly done.
We have here, I. A prophecy of the binding of Satan for a certain term of time, in which he should have much less power and the church much more peace than before. The power of Satan was broken in…
Cambridge Bible
and shut him up … upon him Read, and shut and sealed [it] over him: the opening of Rev 9:2 is undone.
he must be loosed Rev 5:7.
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