relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id 1392,ENT_APOLLO,received_as,ENT_CHR_APOLLYON,high,"Revelation 9:11 names the angel of the bottomless pit ""Apollyon"" (Ἀπολλύων, ""Destroyer""), a transparent Greek wordplay on Apollo (Ἀπόλλων). The identification would have been unmistakable to Greek-speaking audiences: the great healing and oracular god becomes the angel of destruction and the abyss. Justin Martyr (1 Apol. 24) explicitly lists Apollo among the gods who are demons. The Apollo→Apollyon chain is the single most textually specific Olympian demonization in the New Testament.",SRC_JUSTIN_MARTYR_APOLOGIES,reviewed,PER_PATRISTIC