And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
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4 additional translationsAnd he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,
And he laid hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent who is [the] devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
About this book
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About this book
New TestamentRevelation — John on Patmos sees the Lamb who was slain enthroned, the scroll opened, Babylon fallen, and the new Jerusalem descending. The canon's capstone — and its most interpretively contested book.
- Author
- John (traditional — apostle of Jesus; same author as the Fourth Gospel). Some modern critical scholarship distinguishes ‘John of Patmos’ from the apostle; site defaults to traditional attribution
- Date
- Late-date c. AD 95–96 under Domitian (Irenaeus, mainstream traditional); early-date c. AD 65–68 under Nero (required by most preterist readings). Site surfaces both