And I saw seats; and they sat upon them; and judgment was given unto them; and the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and who had not adored the beast nor his image, nor received his character on their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Glossa Ordinaria
And see thrones. The devil being bound, I saw the faithful loosed, and the lesser ones ready to obey their prelates, and the prelates to judge their subjects. I saw in the time of the binding the Church so loosed for working well, and at this same time I saw those who die for Christ enter at once into glory, never descending to the lower regions, as Abraham and the rest of the prophets descended, although they were just. And the souls of the beheaded. And I saw likewise the souls of those who did not adore. And they lived. And I do not say that they shall live and reign in the time to come, but also in this present time, namely, that from the time they were slain they lived and reigned with Christ.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.