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Deep, the (ἂβυσσος)

From: Concise Bible Dictionary: D

By: George A. Morrish

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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In Romans 10:7⁷Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) (Romans 10:7) “the deep” probably refers to the deep sea, for in Deuteronomy 30:13¹³Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? (Deuteronomy 30:13) (from whence the quotation is made) it is “Who shall go over the sea for us?” and the sea is called “the deep” elsewhere, as Isaiah 51:10¹⁰Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? (Isaiah 51:10); Isaiah 63:13¹³That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble? (Isaiah 63:13). In Luke 8:31³¹And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. (Luke 8:31) “the deep” refers to the abyss where evil spirits are confined. It is probably the place where the fallen angels are reserved in chains of darkness (2 Pet. 2:4⁴For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; (2 Peter 2:4)), where the reference is to tartarus, not gehenna. See BOTTOMLESS PIT.

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