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Abyss (religion)
In religion, an aby ss is a bottom less pit, or also a chasm that may lead to the underworld or hell.

In the Septuagint, or Greek v ersion of the Hebrew Bible, the word represents both the original unfinished creation (Genesis 1:2) and the Hebrew tehom ("a surging water-deep"), which is used also in apocaly ptic and kabbalistic literature and in
the New Testament for hell; the place of punishment; in the Rev ised v ersion of the Bible "aby ss" is generally used for this idea. Primarily in the Septuagint cosmography the word is applied both to the waters under the earth which originally
cov ered it, and from which the springs and riv ers are supplied and to the waters of the firmament which were regarded as closely connected with those below.

In Psalm 42 v erse 7 , "Deep calls to deep" (referring to the waters) renders the Latin "Aby ssus aby ssum inv ocat", dev eloping the theme of the longing of the soul for God. Cassiodorus relates this passage to the mutual witness of the two
Testaments, the Old Testament foretelling the New, and the New Testament fulfilling the Old. [1 ]

A discussion of the Biblical Aby ss, as the Tehom-Rabba, and its relation to the Deluge formed part of the Sacred Theory of Thomas Burnet. [2 ]

In the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus there is an aby ss between the righteous dead and the wicked dead in Sheol. [3 ]

In the Book of Rev elation, Abaddon is called "the angel of the aby ss". [4 ]

Notes
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Abyss" (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Abyss). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

References
1. P.G. Walsh (trans. and ed.), Cassiodorus: Explanation of the Psalms, Vol. I, Psalms 1-50 (Psalms 1-51 (50)), Ancient Christian writers no. 51 (Paulist Press, New York, N.Y./Mahwah, N.J. 1990), p. 420 (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aX5LVObh1B
gC&pg=PA420#v=onepage&q&f=false) (Google).
2. T. Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth, Fourth edition (John Hooke, London 1719), Book I Chapter VII, pp. 105-30 (https://archive.org/details/sacredtheoryofea01burn/page/104) (Internet Archive).
3. Luke 16:26
4. Revelation 9:11 (http://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Revelation+9:11–9:11&version=nrsv)

External links
JewishEncyclopedia.com: Abyss (http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=707&letter=A&search=abyss)

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