1 “For Isaiah spoke this way about this period of a thousand years: ‘For there shall be the new heaven and the new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind; but they shall find joy and gladness in it, in the things I create. For look, I am making Jerusalem a rejoicing and My people a joy; and I will rejoice over Jerusalem and be glad over My people. And the sound of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, or the sound of crying. And there shall no longer be anyone there who dies young, or an old man who does not live out his days.⁠a For the young man shall be a hundred years old; but the sinner who dies at a hundred years old shall be accursed. 2 And they shall build houses and live in them themselves; and they shall plant vineyards and eat their produce themselves, and drink the wine. They shall not build for others to live in; they shall not plant for others to eat. For according to the days of the tree of life shall be the days of my people; the works of their toil shall abound. My chosen ones shall not toil in vain or bear children to be cursed; for they shall be a seed righteous and blessed by the Lord, and their offspring with them. And before they call, I will answer; while they are still speaking, I will say, What is it? Then the wolves and the lambs shall graze together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; but the serpent [shall eat] earth as bread. They shall not hurt or harm each other on the holy mountain, says the Lord.’ 3 Now we have understood that the phrase among these words, ‘According to the days of the tree [of life] shall be the days of my people; the works of their toil shall abound,’ points in a hidden way to a thousand years. For as Adam was told that on the day he ate from the tree he would die, we know that he did not live a full thousand years. We have also understood that the saying, ‘The day of the Lord is as a thousand years,’ bears on this.⁠b 4 And further, there was a man among us named John, one of the apostles of Christ, who prophesied in a revelation given to him that those who believed in our Christ would spend a thousand years in Jerusalem, and that after that the general, and in short the eternal, resurrection and judgment of all people together would take place. As our Lord also said, ‘They will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be equal to the angels, being children of the God of the resurrection.’