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The Deep

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Abyss, or abode, of lost spirits (Luke 8:31³¹And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. (Luke 8:31); Rom. 10:7⁷Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) (Romans 10:7)). “Bottomless pit,” (Rev. 9:1-2,11; 11:7¹And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. ²And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. (Revelation 9:1‑2)
¹¹And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. (Revelation 9:11)
⁷And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. (Revelation 11:7)).

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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.