And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
That old - ancient (Revelation 12:9).
Thousand years. As seven implies universality, so a thousand implies perfection, whether in good or evil, (Aquinas, on Revelation 11:1-19.) Thousand symbolizes the world is perfectly pervaded by the divine: since thousand is ten, the number of the world, raised to the third power, the number of God (Auberlen). It may denote literally a thousand years.