Revelation 20:2 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, And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent which is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years; that is, a certain definite time, Revelation 20:4 these thousand years. \ They are not any mystical or prophetical number, but literal, and so Pareus, and other expositors number them literally. Revelation 20:3