Thietland of Einsiedeln
Medieval · AD 800–1500 · 24 passages across 2 books
Commentary
Revelation 20:1
· 2 passages
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
an angel. That angel is the Lord Jesus Christ, an angel of great prudence, who decended from heaven through the mystery of the Incarnation.
chain. By this is the great quantity of his power represented.
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,
old serpent. The Devil is rightly called serpent because he decieved the first man through the serpent, and also rightly called old on account of the antiquity of the time, because at the beginning of created things he was created by God.
Revelation 20:7
And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
For Gog is interpreted as 'covered', and Magog as 'uncovered'.