As Baligant, lord of the pagans, issues from the East to challenge Charlemagne and be crushed, Satan emerges from his prison for a short period (3) after the millennium, musters an enormous army of pagans to besiege the holy capital, but is decisively routed and flung into the lake of fire to share the tortures of his former agents. The tenses shift from future (Revelation 20:7-8; Revelation 20:10 b) to aorist (Revelation 20:9-10 a) the latter (cf. Revelation 11:11) being possibly due to the influence of Semitic idiom.

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