3and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.
The Greek uses here the identical word that had appeared in Revelation 20:1, there translated as “bottomless pit” (abyss). It is unknown to me why translators omitted the adjective “bottomless” in the present verse. This abyss is the devil’s prison.
3 and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.