John Trapp on Revelation 20:2

Verſe 2. And he laid hold on the Dragon] Chap. 12.7, 9. He took him in a field-fight, and ſince then till now we have heard little of him, more then that he ſubſtituted the Beaſt, Chap. 13. whoſe deſtruction being declared, the prophecy returns to ſhew the judgment of the Dragon.

And bound him] From the open ſlaughtering of the Saints, as he had done by the Heathen Emperours: for from moleſting and miſchieving of Gods people, other wiſe he is not bound one hour, Job 1. 1 Pet. 5.8. And how his vicegerent the Beaſt hath beſtirred him, during the thouſand years, who knows not?

A thouſand years] Hos explicare fat[illegible: 1 letter]or trepidè m[illegible: 1 letter] aggredi, ſaith Pareus. He begins the thouſand at the deſtructi[illegible: 1 letter]n of the Temple, anno 73. and ſo it ends in Pope Hildebrand, who ſtept into that chair of peſtilence, anno 1073. Others begin it at the birth of Chriſt, and end in Silvester 2. Others at Chriſts paſſion, and end in Benedict 9. But they do beſt in my opinion, that begin at Constantine, and end in Boniface the 8. who is of his own ſaid to have entered like a fox, raigned as a Lion, and died as a dog. He excommunicated the French King, and publiſhed this decree, That the Biſhop of Rome ought to be judged of none, although he ſhould carry innumerable ſouls with him to hell.