to God ὁ κλείσας τὴν ἄβυσσον καὶ σφραγισάμενος τῷ φοβερῷ καὶ ἐνδόξῳ ὀνόματί σου, “who has closed the deep and sealed it with thy terrible and glorious name.” Three common terms are found in Rev 20:3 and Pr. Man. 3: (1) ἄβυσσος, “deep, abyss,” (2) κλείειν, “close,” and (3) σφραγίζειν, “seal”; this suggests a traditional formulation of this protological scene (understood eschatologically by John). In a Gnostic variation on this conception, the Hypostasis of the Archons mentions