1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand ^pthe key to the bottomless pit¹ and a great chain. 2 And he seized ^qthe dragon, ^rthat ancient serpent, who is the ^sdevil and ^tSatan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not ^udeceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.