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The deep, or the great deep, signifies in Scripture, hell, the place of punishment, the bottomless pit, Lu 8:31, compare Re 9:1; 11:7; the grave, Ro 10:7; the deepest parts of the sea, Ps 69:15; 107:26; chaos in the beginning of the world, Ge 1:2. See HELL.
And they be sought him, that he would not command them to -go away into the abyss.
or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring Christ again from the dead.
And the fifth angel sounded; and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth; and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss;
And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.