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Abaddon
One of the Old Testament’s words for the place where dead people are, like Sheol. The ordinary word is similar to a Hebrew word meaning “perish,” which may not be a coincidence. Indeed, the verb can suggest “destroy,” and people might make a link with the fact that death does mean that our bodies decay. But the texts do not make anything of this. The word is simply a name...

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