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the "depths of Satan"... What is it?

Study: "But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan , as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden." Revelation 2:24 What is Revelation 2:24's the "depths of Satan"? How can we know what it is? As, always... the answer is to be found in the Bible! If we search for "depths of Satan," both for the English as well as its underlying Greek, we find no parallel texts. But Satan is known as the great counterfeiter of all that is God's, so perhaps the "depths of Satan" is a counterfeit of something that was originally God's. If there is no parallel for the "depths of Satan" then, perhaps we can find out more about it by looking for the "depths of God." If the "depths of Satan" is indeed a counterfeit then by studying the genuine we can learn about the counterfeit. Searching for th...

"depth" in the New Testament (Wigram, Englishman's Greek concordance of the New Testament, 2nd ed., 1844)

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Quote: βάθος, bathos. Mat. 13:5. they had no deepness of earth: Mar. 4:5. because it had no depth of earth: Lu. 5:4. Launch out into the deep , and let Ro. 8:39. Nor height, nor depth , nor any other       11:33. O the depth of the riches both of 1Co. 2:10. yea, the deep things of God. 2Co. 8:2. their deep poverty abounded Eph. 3:18. the breadth, and length, and depth , and Rev. 2:24. have not known the depths of Satan, Wigram, George Vicesimus, The Englishman's Greek concordance of the New Testament, being an attempt at a verbal connexion between the Greek and the English texts including a concordance to the proper names with indexes Greek-English, and English-Greek , 2nd ed., London: Longman, Green, Brown, and Longmans, 1844, p. 100 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/englishmansgreek00wig Book Images: