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Satan
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Satan the Devil, Lucifer. Recorded from Old English, the name comes via late Latin and Greek from Hebrew
śāṭān, literally ‘adversary’, from
śāṭan ‘plot against’.
In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word usually denotes a human enemy, but in some of the later books is found as the designation of an angelic being hostile to humankind.
get thee behind me, Satan a rejection of temptation; originally, with biblical allusion to the words of Jesus in Matthew 16:23 in which he rebuked Peter for denying the prophecy that Jesus would be put to death in Jerusalem.
Satan rebuking sin a proverbial expression; recorded from the early 17th century in the form, ‘when vice rebuketh sin’; the meaning is that when this happens, the worst possible stage has been reached. In later use, the emphasis is an ironic comment on the nature of the person delivering the rebuke.
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Satan: A Biography.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Satan: A Biography. By Henry Ansgar Kelly. Cambridge: Cambridge University...Catholics who have swallowed a scripturally erroneous interpretation of Satan as dualistic Enemy, Satan: A Biography argues that the Satan figure remains an ambivalent...
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Satan and Adam: Harlem shufflers
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/31/1992; ; 700+ words
; Satan and Adam Rosa's, 9 p.m. Thursday...TULSA, Olka. It was an unscheduled gig for Satan and Adam. The black and white thrash bluesmen...on the grounds of the Tulsa Mayfest. Mr. Satan, as he prefers to be called, set up his...
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Satan: A Biography
Magazine article from: New Oxford Review; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Satan: A Biography. By Henry Ansgar Kelly. Cambridge...65. Henry Ansgar Kelly's new book, Satan: A Biography, is a treasure trove of interesting...to educated laymen who want to learn how Satan has been perceived throughout history. Kelly...
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Satan talk in Corinth: the rhetoric of conflict.
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 12/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...to take seriously Paul's references to Satan in their contexts. This language has generally...who posit that merely by the mention of Satan Paul's cosmology is radically dualistic, despite the fact that these references to Satan are neither consistent with that portrait...
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`Satan' Invades Security of Cyberspace
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 4/6/1995; ; 700+ words
; "Satan" arrived Wednesday, causing computer experts...I ready? Chances are, they're not. "Satan" is a sophisticated software program, which...crooks will be scrambling for copies of "Satan" to find security holes in computers throughout...
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SATAN: GOD'S SERVANT
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Satan is usually understood primarily as the...another side to the biblical portrayal of Satan. While many texts emphasize the hostility between God and Satan, there is also abundant evidence that...
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Satan--the Prodigal Son? A Family Problem in the Bible
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; KIRSTEN NIELSEN, Satan-the Prodigal Son? A Family Problem in the Bible...interpretation of the biblical texts which speak of Satan. Her suggestive and provocative thesis is that Satan is symbolically portrayed as a son of God and as the...
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Satan hopes to play for Pens
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 3/12/2009; ; 700+ words
; COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Winger Miroslav Satan will report to the AHL, but he hopes to...future," said Allan Walsh, who represents Satan. "It's not a matter of if. It's...announced last night via a news release that Satan will report to the AHL, where he has not...
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Scaling Satan.
Magazine article from: The Journal of Psychology; 5/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...influence on social behavior of beliefs in Satan and the nature of evil has received little...Pagels (1995) in her book, The Origin of Satan, argued that Christians' intolerance...others is due to their belief in an active Satan. In this study, more than 200 college...
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Wing Satan happy to contribute for Pens
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 5/11/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...about all the time, and winger Miroslav Satan mentioned them often during his six months...chance wasted. The Penguins can thank Satan that they did not waste two scoring chances...consecutive Eastern Conference final. Yes, Satan, discarded to the AHL two months back...
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Satan
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Satan The Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions are monotheistic faiths...there is only one God. That God has a powerful adversary known as Satan, or the Devil. Satan's role changed over time, as the three religions developed. At...
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Anton LaVey's First Church of Satan
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
Anton Lavey's First Church of Satan O n Walpurgisnacht, April 30, 1966...with white collar, and proclaimed himself Satan's high priest. Concurrently, LaVey...the establishment of the First Church of Satan in America. A short time later, LaVey...
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First Church of Satan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
First Church of Satan The First Church of Satan emerged in the 1990s as an Inter-net fellowship focused upon...John Dewey Alle (b. 1951), a former member of the Church of Satan. Alle had joined the Church of Satan in 1970 and adopted what...
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Church of Satan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Church of Satan In the late 1960s many were dismayed to...supernatural world of angels and demons, God and Satan, LaVey's assertion of Satanism was initially...disbelief in super-naturalism altogether. Satan was seen not as the evil opposite of God...
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Christ and Satan
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Christ and Satan, an Old English poem of 733 lines found in the...origin. The subjects of the three sections are: Satan's lament for his fall; the Harrowing of Hell; and the temptation of Christ by Satan.
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