[[688]] What is enclosed between the brackets is a long addition sent by the author to the printer whilst they were working at a second edition of his letter.
[[689]] Et vidi angelum descendentem de cœlo habentem clavem abyssi et catenam magnam in manu suà; et appehendit draconem, serpentem, antiquum, qui est Diabolus et Satanas, et ligavit eum per annos mille.—Apoc. xx. 1.
[[690]] Et cum consummati fuerint mille anni, solvetur Satanas de carcere suo.—Apoc. v. 7.
[[691]] Cujus est adventus secundùm operationem Satanæ in omni virtute et signis et prodigiis mendacibus.—2 Thess. ii. 9.
[[692]] Joseph. Antiq. lib. viii. c. 2.
[[693]] Acts viii. 6.
[[694]] Mittet siquidem Dominus in iram et furorem suum per angelos pessimos. Hier. ad Eph. i. 7. p. 574.
[[695]] Vid. de Beatif. lib. iv. p. i. c. 3.
[[696]] Pp. 67, 75.
[[697]] P. 243.