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geneva@Revelation:20:1 @ And (note:)Now follows the third part of the prophetic history, which is of the victory by which Christ overcame the dragon, as I noted in (Rev_7:1). This part must necessarily be joined with the end of the twelfth chapter and be applied to the correct understanding of it. This chapter has two parts, one of the dragon overcome, to (Rev_20:2-10): the other of the resurrection and last judgment to (Rev_20:11-15). The story of the dragon is twofold: First of the first victory, after which he was bound by Christ, to the sixth verse (Rev_20:1-6). The second is of the last victory, by which he has thrown down into everlasting punishment, there to the fifteenth verse (Rev_20:7-15). This first history happened in the first time of the Christian Church, when the dragon thrown down from heaven by Christ, went about to molest the new birth of the Church in the earth, (Rev_12:17, Rev_18:1). For which cause I gave warning, that this story of the dragon must be joined to that passage.(:note) I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key That is, of hell, where God threw the angels who had sinned, and bound them in chains of darkness to be kept till damnation, (2Pe_2:4) of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

geneva@Revelation:20:2 @ And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him (note:)The first of which (continuing this history with the end of the second chapter) in the 36 years from the passion of Christ, when the Church of the Jews being overthrown, Satan attempted to invade the Christian church gathered from the Gentiles, and to destroy part of her seed, (Rev_12:17). The thousandth year falls precisely on the times of that wicked Hildebrand, who was called Gregory the seventh, a most damnable necromancer and sorcerer, whom Satan used as an instrument when he was loosed out of bonds, from then on to annoy the saints of God with most cruel persecutions, and the whole world with dissentions, and most bloody wars: as Benno the Cardinal reports at large. This is the first victory gained over the dragon in the earth.(:note) a thousand years,

geneva@Revelation:20:3 @ And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations (note:)Namely, with that public and violent deceit which he attempted before in chapter 12 and which after a thousand years (alas for woe!) he most mightily achieved in the Christian world.(:note) no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed Which being once expired, the second battle and victory shall be; (Rev_20:7-8). a little season.

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geneva@Revelation:20:6 @ Blessed and holy [is] he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the (note:)That by this both body and soul, that is, the whole man is condemned and delivered to eternal death; (Rev_2:11).(:note) second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, A return to the intended history, by resuming the words which are in the end of the fourth verse (Rev_20:4). and shall reign with him a thousand years.

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geneva@Revelation:20:9 @ And they went up on the (note:)As if he said, in so much that the whole face of the earth, however great it is, was filled.(:note) breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and The wrath of God, consuming the adversaries, and overthrowing all their enterprises; (Heb_10:27). This is the second part mentioned {{See Rev_20:7}}, in the overthrow of Satan. fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

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geneva@Revelation:20:12 @ And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before (note:)That is, Christ the judge; (2Co_5:10).(:note) God; and the As it were, his books of reckoning or accounts, that is, the testimony of our conscience, and of our works, which by no means can be avoided. books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] The book of the eternal decree of God, in which God the Father has elected in Christ according to the good pleasure of his will, those that shall be heirs of life. This also is spoken according to the manner of men. of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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geneva@Revelation:20:15 @ And whosoeuer was not found written in the booke of life, was cast into the lake of fire.

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