Abyss (religion)

Abyss (Greek ἄβυσσος groundless ' immeasurable ', ' abyss '; Latin: Abyssus ) referred to in the biblical mythology, the underworld.

The Abyss appears several times in the Book of Revelation. First, it is a place whose key has an angel in his hands, and from the end of the day flocks of locusts rise to torment all those people that do not bear the seal of God on their foreheads .. Then as origin of the animal, that rises from the abyss and kills the prophets, after all it is the place where the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is identified in Revelation with the devil is bound during the 1,000-year empire with a chain after by an angel was overcome.

In Paul, the Abyss is a realm of the dead, similar to the Greek Hades.

In Luke, the concept appears as a place of imprisonment for demons and in the history of the rich man and Lazarus to denote the separating abyss between the righteous and the wicked in the world beyond.

As quote the Vulgate translation of Psalm 42.8 EU became proverbial: Abyssus abyssum invocat (, abyss calls out to abyss ').

In the Septuagint Abyss serves as translation of the Hebrew term Tehom ( תהום, " deep sea " ), which appears already in the first book of Moses.