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In Genesis 3:24, it is a Cherubim - an angel of the Lord who guards the Garden of Eden. They are depicted in the tabernacle and on the ark of the covenant, guarding the Throne of God. In all places, they are associated with angelic beings and are part of the host of heaven.
The difficulty in giving a verse calling a cherubim an angel is that angelos is a ...
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Within the Tanach/Old Testament there is no association of the angelic “adversary”, the satan¹ in the books of Job and Samuel, to be any sort of fallen or rebellious angel. Aside from the rather obscure verses about the nefilim in Genesis 6, I know of no Biblical verses that Jewish scholars take to refer to fallen or rebellious angels.²
The verses in Isaiah ...
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The Hebrew for the final clause is:
וַיָּבוֹא גַם הַשָּׂטָן, בְּתוֹכָם.
גַם means "also", so a straightforward reading suggests that the satan was not part of the group. We see another "exclusive gam" in Gen 33:7, where Yaakov's concubines (handmaids) approach Eisav and "gam Leah" -- Leah is not a handmaid but a wife. These are just two examples, ...
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Your parish priest has it right. The usage of the word "satan" (שטן) has evolved over time and several different usages were used concurrently. There is a good summary of the evolution of the usage on Bethelbooks.com.
With a bit of simplification we can say that there are three phases in the evolution of the usage:
Pre-exilic
Post-exilic
Post-OT
In the ...
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Satan (שָׂטָן) in Hebrew means “enemy” or “adversary” but this “opposition” is in the Old Testament directed in the specific sense of an “accuser”. The idea seems to be that since man has fallen into sin under the curse of Law, the Devil appeals to God’s own justice in order to accuse men and keep them under his domain of death. He is a kind of 'receiver ...
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It is a common feature of biblical prophecy to conflate various events, people, places, etc.
This is related to the theology of types: some events, people, places, etc, foreshadow and picture others.
This gives rise to the "mountain peak" metaphor of prophecy: when looking down a range of mountains, it not easy to clearly distinguish them unless you have ...
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Though it's not going to be popular, I would suggest that these are the preferred readings of the "Lucifer" tradition. Both here, and Isaiah 13-14, the historical and traditional attempts to reconcile prophetic language with a very concrete concept of a location (Tyre and Babylon, respectively) probably resulted in such an understanding.
I'm still on the ...
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Wikipedia is helpful here;
much of this answer is adapted from there.
The Hebrew satan [שטן] means to oppose or obstruct,
more actively than to simply be a stumbling block.
In Job and Zechariah, though,
mention is made of a particular celestial being identified as ha-satan [השטן]
with the definite article ha-;
so, “the satan” or “the adversary”.
This ...
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It seems that anyone who is termed the "son of God" is someone who is directly created by God. Thus Adam is the "son of God" because he was directly created by God (Luke 3:38). Likewise, Jesus is the "son of God" because he was begotten by his heavenly father. Satan, like other angels, was created by the direct hand of God (Ezek 28:13), and therefore he too ...
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