Depths Of Satan
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [1]
( τὰ βαθέα τοῦ Σατανᾶ , tá bathéa toú Sataná ): Found in Revelation 2:24 , and has reference to false teaching at Thyatira. It is a question (that perhaps may not be decided) whether tou Satana , "of Satan," represents the claim of the false teachers, or is thrown in by the Lord. Did those false teachers claim to know "the depths" of Satan? Or was it that they claimed to know "the depths" of Deity, and the Lord said it was rather "the depths of Satan?" In either case the antithesis to "depths of Satan" is "depths of God," as referred to in Romans 11:33; 1 Corinthians 2:10 .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
( Revelation 2:24), probably were the mysteries of the Nicolaitans, the Simonians, and other early Gnostics, who concealed their errors under deep abstruseness derived from wild speculations of Oriental philosophy, spoke of certain intelligences which created the world, but were in opposition to the Creator. They taught a profound knowledge of the nature of angels and their different degrees. They seem to have had secret books, written in an abstruse and mysterious style. (See Gnostics).
