Abaddon (Destroyer) is the Hebrew name for the Greek Apollyon, known as the Angel of the Bottomless Pit (Revelation 10), who ties up the Devil for a millennium (Revelation 20).
Several sources speak of Abaddon, including The Thanksgiving Hymns (a Dead Sea Scroll), which mentions the “Sheol of Abaddon” and the “torrents of Belial that burst into Abaddon,” as well as the first-century Biblical Antiquities of Philo. Abaddon is also referred to as a place—the pit—in Milton’s Paradise Regained.
Abaddon is further identified as a demon, or the Devil himself, in the third-century Acts of Thomas, as well as in John Bunyan’s Puritan classic, Pilgrim’s Progress.
Elsewhere, Abaddon is invoked by Moses to bring down the rain over Egypt, as reported by Mathers in The Greater Key of Solomon. There is also a reference to Abaddon as the sixth lodge of the seven odges of hell in the work of the Cabalist Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla. In various sources, Abaddon is identified as an angel of death and destruction, demon of the abyss, and chief of demons of the underworld.
Several sources speak of Abaddon, including The Thanksgiving Hymns (a Dead Sea Scroll), which mentions the “Sheol of Abaddon” and the “torrents of Belial that burst into Abaddon,” as well as the first-century Biblical Antiquities of Philo. Abaddon is also referred to as a place—the pit—in Milton’s Paradise Regained.
Abaddon is further identified as a demon, or the Devil himself, in the third-century Acts of Thomas, as well as in John Bunyan’s Puritan classic, Pilgrim’s Progress.
Elsewhere, Abaddon is invoked by Moses to bring down the rain over Egypt, as reported by Mathers in The Greater Key of Solomon. There is also a reference to Abaddon as the sixth lodge of the seven odges of hell in the work of the Cabalist Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla. In various sources, Abaddon is identified as an angel of death and destruction, demon of the abyss, and chief of demons of the underworld.
Sources:
Bunyan, John. Pilgrim’s Progress. Reprint. New York: Dutton, 1954.
Davidson, Gustav. A Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels. 1967. Reprint.
New York: Free Press, 1971.
Bunyan, John. Pilgrim’s Progress. Reprint. New York: Dutton, 1954.
Davidson, Gustav. A Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels. 1967. Reprint.
New York: Free Press, 1971.
The Key of Solomon the King. Translated and edited from manuscripts in the British
Museum by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers. Reprint. York Beach, Maine:
Samuel Weiser, 1989.
Strayer, Joseph R. Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1982.
Museum by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers. Reprint. York Beach, Maine:
Samuel Weiser, 1989.
Strayer, Joseph R. Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s
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