Thietland of Einsiedeln

In his own words on Revelation

• Revelation 20:1

  chain. By this is the great quantity of his power represented.

• Revelation 20:1

  key to the bottomless pit. this is because he has in his power the hearts of those whom he hardens, and of those whom he opens to believing. The bottomeless pit is the great number of the faithful peoples, because just as it is incomprehensible, so also is the great number of peoples.

• Revelation 20:1

  an angel. That angel is the Lord Jesus Christ, an angel of great prudence, who decended from heaven through the mystery of the Incarnation.

• Revelation 20:2

  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

  For Gog is interpreted as 'covered', and Magog as 'uncovered'.