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.
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Bede
AD 735
seal: He interdicted him, and as by a royal seal prevented him from seducing the nations ; namely those which were appointed unto life, which he seduced before, that they should not be reconciled to God.