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In Judaism, an angel acting at God's direction to test or prove somebody; in Christianity, a fallen angel who rebelled against God and reigns over hell.
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Satan: Stumbling Block or Accuser?
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”. …
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Why, in Ezekiel 28, is the King of Tyre conflated with Lucifer?
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. … out that this is a conflation, and not necessarily implicit in the text.⁴
I have written the word in italics to emphasize that I’m using it as a transliteration of the Hebrew שטן, as distinct from “Satan …
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