Robertson's Word Pictures of the NT

Revelation 9:1

Fallen

(πεπτωκοτα). Perfect active participle of πιπτω, already down. In Luke 10:18 note πεσοντα (constative aorist active, like a flash of lightning) after εθεωρουν and in Revelation 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 Romans 10:7 for the common receptacle of the dead for Hades (Sheol), but in Luke 8:31 a lower depth is sounded (Swete), for the abode of demons, and in this sense it occurs in Revelation 9:1; Revelation 9:2; Revelation 9:11; Revelation 11:7; Revelation 17:8; Revelation 20:1; Revelation 20:3. Φρεαρ is an old word for well or cistern (Luke 14:5; John 4:11) and it occurs in Revelation 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.

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