And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
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Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
For by the number of a thousand he denoted not the quantity of time but the universality, with which the Church exercises dominion. Now the old serpent is bound with a chain and cast into the bottomless pit, because being tied up from the hearts of the good, while he is shut up in the minds of lost sinners, he rules over them with worse cruelty. (Morals 18.42)
