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Article History

Abaddon, the angel of the bottomless pit, referred to in the Revelation to John. John Milton extended the meaning of the term to include the pit (i.e., the abyss of hell) itself in his poem Paradise Regained (1671) .

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.