Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 9:1 - 9:1

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Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 9:1 - 9:1


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Fallen (peptōkota). Perfect active participle of piptō, already down. In Luk 10:18 note pesonta (constative aorist active, like a flash of lightning) after etheōroun and in Rev 7:2 note anabainonta (present active and linear, coming up, picturing the process) after eidon.

Of the pit of the abyss (tou phreatos tēs abussou). Abussos is an old adjective (alpha privative and buthos, depth, without depth), but hē abussos (supply chōra place), the bottomless place. It occurs in Rom 10:7 for the common receptacle of the dead for Hades (Sheol), but in Luk 8:31 a lower depth is sounded (Swete), for the abode of demons, and in this sense it occurs in Rev 9:1, Rev 9:2, Rev 9:11; Rev 11:7; Rev 17:8; Rev 20:1, Rev 20:3. Phrear is an old word for well or cistern (Luk 14:5; Joh 4:11.) and it occurs in Rev 9:1. 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.