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Revelation 20:4Rev.20.4

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

KJV

Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Et je vis des trônes; et à ceux qui s'y assirent fut donné le pouvoir de juger. Et je vis les âmes de ceux qui avaient été décapités à cause du témoignage de Jésus et à cause de la parole de Dieu, et de ceux qui n'avaient pas adoré la bête ni son image, et qui n'avaient pas reçu la marque sur leur front et sur leur main. Ils revinrent à la vie, et ils régnèrent avec Christ pendant mille ans.

KJV

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Patristic reading

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  • Eusebius of Caesarea

    Historia Ecclesiastica

    ωνὰς ἤδη πρότερον παρατέθειμαι, ἐν τῇ φερομένη αὐτοῦ ζητήσει ταῦτα περὶ αὐτοῦ γράφει· Rev. 1, 2.22,8 Rev.20. 4–6 Rev. 21, 2 . 10. 22, 1. 2. 14. 17 “Ἀλλὰ καὶ Κήρινθος ὁ δι’ ἀποκαλύψεων ὡς ὑπὸ ἀποστόλου μεγάλου γεγραμμένων τερατολογίας ἡμῖν ὡς δι’ ἀγγέλων αὐτῷ δεδειγμένας ψευδόμενο…

  • Eusebius of Caesarea

    Historia Ecclesiastica

    d or wife in later Greek. κοινωνοὶ καὶ μέτοχοι τῆς κρίαεως αὐτοῦ καὶ cf. Matt. 19,28; 1 Cor. 6,2. 3; Rev 20, 4. συνδικάζοντες αὐτῷ, τῶν παραπεπτωκότων ἀδελΦῶν τινας ὑπευθύνους τοῖς τῶν θυσιῶν γενομένους προσελάβοντο, καὶ τὴν καὶ μετάνοιαν αὐτῶν ἰδόντες δεκτήν τε γενέσθαι Cf. Eze…

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    rrection of the dead, the years are still reckoned until the resurrection of others, as appears from Apoc. 20:4,5. For it is stated there that "I saw . . . the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God," and further on: "And they lived a…

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