Revelation of John 9:1
Fallen ( πεπτωκοτα ). Perfect active participle of πιπτω, already down. In Lu 10:18 note πεσοντα (constative aorist active, like a flash of lightning) after εθεωρουν and in Re 7:2 note αναβαινοντα (present active and linear, coming up, picturing the process) after ειδον.Of the pit of the abyss ( του φρεατος της αβυσσου ). Αβυσσος is an old adjective (alpha privative and βυθος, depth, without depth), but η αβυσσος (supply χωρα 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. Φρεαρ 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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