{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/rev020.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/rev020.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/rev020.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nOf the bottomless pit\nSee on Rev 9:1. This is to be distinguished from the lake of fire. Compare Rev 20:10.\nChain (\u1f05\u03bb\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd)\nSee on Mar 5:4. Only here in John's writings.\nIn his hand (\u1f10\u03c0\u03af)\nLit., upon: resting on or hanging upon.\nHe laid hold (\u1f10\u03ba\u03c1\u03ac\u03c4\u03b7\u03c3\u03b5\u03bd)\nSee on Mar 8:3; see on Act 3:11.\nThe dragon (\u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03b4\u03c1\u03ac\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1)\nSee on Rev 12:3. The word is commonly derived from \u1f14\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd, the second aorist tense of \u03b4\u03ad\u03c1\u03ba\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9 to see clearly, in allusion to the sharp sight of the fabled dragon.\nOld (\u1f00\u03c1\u03c7\u03b1\u1fd6\u03bf\u03bd)\nSee on Jo1 2:7.\nThe Devil\nNote the three epithets: the Old Serpent, the Devil, Satan. See on Mat 4:1; see on Luk 10:18.\nSealed\nSee on Joh 3:33.\nMust (\u03b4\u03b5\u1fd6)\nAccording to God's purpose. See on Mat 16:21; see on Luk 2:49; see on Luk 24:26.\nThrones\nSee on Rev 2:13.\nThey sat\nAll the faithful members of Christ's Church. Compare they reigned with Christ.\nBeheaded (\u03c0\u03b5\u03c0\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03ba\u03b9\u03c3\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd)\nFrom \u03c0\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03ba\u03c5\u03c2 an ax. Only here in the New Testament.\nThey lived\nEquivalent to lived again. Compare Rev 20:5.\nLived - again (\u1f00\u03bd\u03ad\u03b6\u03b7\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd)\nRead \u1f14\u03b6\u03b7\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd lived, as in Rev 20:4\nHath part (\u1f14\u03c7\u03c9\u03bd \u03bc\u03ad\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2)\nA phrase peculiar to John as referring to a person. Compare Joh 13:8.\nSecond death\nSee on Rev 2:11.\nGog and Magog\nSee Ezekiel 38, 39. Compare Gen 10:2. where Magog appears as a son of Japhet. Magog is a general name for the northern nations, and, according to Ezekiel, Gog is their prince. Josephus says that the descendants of Magog were the Scythians.\nOn the breadth (\u1f10\u03c0\u1f76 \u03c4\u1f78 \u03c0\u03bb\u03ac\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2)\nLit., over (\u1f10\u03c0\u03af). As distinguished from the \"four corners\" of Rev 20:8. They overspread the earth.\nThe camp (\u03c4\u1f74\u03bd \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b5\u03bc\u03b2\u03bf\u03bb\u1f74\u03bd)\nSee on castle, Act 21:34. Encompassing and defending the city. Compare Psa 78:7.\nThe beloved city\nCompare Psa 78:68.\nFrom God\nOmit.\nBefore God\nRead \u03b8\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5 throne for \u0398\u03b5\u03bf\u1fe6 God. So Rev., before the throne.\nThe books (\u03b2\u03b9\u03b2\u03bb\u03af\u03b1)\nNo article. Read books. Compare Dan 7:10.\nBook of life\nSee on Rev 3:5.\nThe sea\nAs commonly understood, the sea means the literal sea, and the passage signifies that the dead contained in it shall rise. So Alford. Other interpreters, however, say that it cannot mean the literal sea. Thus Milligan argues that the symbols of the Apocalypse must always be interpreted in the same way. \"Symbols,\" he says, \"are a form of speech, and therefore subject to the rules that regulate the interpretation of all speech... The power of that convention which links a certain sense to a certain sound in ordinary terms, is not less binding in the presence than in the absence of metaphor of any kind whatever. Thus when we read in the Apocalypse of 'the sea' as an emblem of the troubled and sinful nations of the earth, we are bound, unless forbidden by the context, to carry that interpretation through, and to understand the sea of the troubled and sinful world.\"\nHell (\u1f41 \u1f85\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2)\nRev., Hades. See on Mat 16:18.\nThis is the second death\nAdd even the lake of fire.\nAnd whosoever (\u03b5\u1f34 \u03c4\u03b9\u03c2)\nLit., if any. So Rev.","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: Revelation: Revelation Chapter 20","type":"page"}