{Fallen} (pept(936b)ota). Perfect active participle of pipt(935c),
already down. In Lu 10:18 note pesonta (constative aorist
active, like a flash of lightning) after ethe(9372)oun and in Re
7:2 note anabainonta (present active and linear, coming up,
picturing the process) after eidon. {Of the pit of the abyss}
( ou phreatos t(8873) abussou). Abussos is an old adjective
(alpha privative and uthos, depth, without depth), but h(880a)abussos (supply ch(9372)a place), the bottomless place. It occurs
in Ro 10:7 for the common receptacle of the dead for Hades
(Sheol), but in Lu 8:31 a lower depth is sounded (Swete), for
the abode of demons, and in this sense it occurs in Re 9:1,2,11 11:7 17:8 20:1,3 . Phrear is an old word for well or cistern
( Lu 14:5 Joh 4:11f. ) and it occurs in Re 9:1f. for the mouth
of the abyss which is pictured as a cistern with a narrow orifice
at the entrance and this fifth angel holds the key to it.
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