ABUSSOS
Jason Hare
parousia_occ at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 7 04:02:02 EDT 2000
Fellow members,
I was just thinking about the word ABUSSOS. I know from reading the Revelation (20.1,3; ...ECONTA THN KLEIN THS ABUSSOU... KAI ELABEN AUTON EIS THN ABUSSON KAI EKLEISEN KAI ESFRAGISEN...) and as far back as the Prayer of Manasseh (1.3; ..hO KLEISAS THN ABUSSON KAI SFRAGISAMENOS AUTHN TWi FOBERWi KAI ENDOXWi ONOMATI SOU...) that the word alluded to some place which could be locked. You might even get the implication of water from the latter (because of its connection with THN QALASSAN in the same verse).
My question is this: can there be constructed a clear meaning as to what kind of image came to mind for a person of Christian/Jewish mentality who spoke Greek in the first century AD when he heard the word ABUSSOS?
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