And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little while.
All Commentaries on Revelation 20:3 Go To Revelation 20
Oecumenius
AD 990
The Revelation does not present to us the millenialism of the atheistic Greeks...Since I have already said that a day is reckoned 'as a 1000 years' by God (Ps. 90:4), and again that the earthly residence of the Lord has been called 'a day' (Is 49:8 ) he says this day is a 1000 years, as though there is no distinction with God between one day and a 1000 years. It was in this period of the Lord's incarnation that the Devil was bound, so that he was unable to oppose the Savior's divine miracles. This was why the destructive demons recognized these spiritual bonds and cried out, "What have you to do with us, Son of the living God? Have you come to torment us before the time?(Mt. 8:29)" The Lord also when talking of stripping off the bonds, said, "Or how can anyone enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house.(Mt. 12:29)" Since as was said, we have considered the incarnation of the Lord and his earthly residence to be both 'one day' and a 1000 years, such a number being used indifferently in Holy Scripture in mystical fashion,
