[a]But the rest of the dead men [b]shall not live again, until the thousand years be finished: this is the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy is he, that hath part in the first resurrection: for on such the [c]second death hath no power: but they shall be the Priests of God and of Christ, [d]and shall reign with him a thousand years.

[e]And when the [f]thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 20:5 Whoever shall lie dead in sin, and not know the truth of God.
  2. Revelation 20:5 They shall not be renewed with that newness of the life by the enlightening of the Gospel of the glory of Christ. For this is the first resurrection, by which the souls of the godly do rise from their death. In the second resurrection their bodies shall rise again.
  3. Revelation 20:6 That whereby both body and soul, that is, the whole man is addicted and delivered unto eternal death. So Rev. 2:11.
  4. Revelation 20:6 A return unto the intended history, by resuming the words which are in the end of the fourth verse.
  5. Revelation 20:7 The second history, of the latter victory of Christ, as was said verse 1. In which are summarily described the work, overthrow and eternal punishment of Satan.
  6. Revelation 20:7 Of which I spake, verse 2. Then therefore shall be given unto him liberty to rage against the Church, and to molest the Saints for the sins of men: unto whom the faithful shall have associated themselves more than was meet, tasting with them of their impurity of doctrine and life.

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