bottomless pit

bottomless pit
a) A pit with no visible (infinite) bottom; an abyss.

And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

b) Hell.

Lipsius was replaced at Leyden by (1540-1609), the French Protestant scholar who was known to contemporaries as "the bottomless pit of erudition."


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