Many will assign various meanings to references to a thousand-year period. Yet, the language does not imply in any way that the references to the thousand years should be taken to mean anything other than a literal period of one thousand years.
Wengi hutoa maana mbalimbali kwa marejeo ya Kipindi cha miaka elfu. Hata hivyo, lugha haimaanishi kwa njia yoyote kwamba ushahidi wa miaka elfu moja kuchukuliwa kwa maana ya kitu kingine chochote Zaidi ya kipindi halisi cha miaka elfu moja.