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The Gospel of John only uses the name Satan three times. [88] In John 8:44, Jesus says that his Jewish or Judean enemies are the children of the Devil rather than the children of Abraham. [88] The same verse describes the Devil as "a man-killer from the beginning" [88] and "a liar and the father of lying."
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, The World English Bible translates the passage as: Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple, The 1881 Westcott-Hort Greek text is:
A satan is involved in King David's census and Christian teachings about this satan varies, just as the pre-exilic account of 2 Samuel and the later account of 1 Chronicles present differing perspectives: And again the anger of the L ORD was kindled against Israel, and He moved David against them, saying: 'Go, number Israel and Judah.'
[further explanation needed] Burton supports his theory by the fact that Tabari does not discuss the story in his exegesis of the verse 53:20, but rather in 22:52. [34] Disagreeing with Burton, G.R. Hawting writes that the satanic verses incident would not serve to justify or exemplify a theory that God reveals something and later replaces it ...
The sheyd Ashmodai (אַשְמְדּאָי) in birdlike form, with typical rooster feet, as depicted in Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae, 1775 Child sacrifice to the sheyd Molekh (מֹלֶךְ), showing the typical depiction of the Ammonite deity Moloch of the Old Testament in medieval and modern sources (illustration by Charles Foster for Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, 1897)
The destroying angel passes through Egypt. [1]In the Hebrew Bible, the destroying angel (Hebrew: מַלְאָך הַמַשְׁחִית, malʾāḵ hamašḥīṯ), also known as mashḥit (מַשְׁחִית mašḥīṯ, 'destroyer'; plural: מַשְׁחִיתִים, mašḥīṯīm, 'spoilers, ravagers'), is an entity sent out by God on several occasions to deal with numerous peoples.
The Codex Gigas opened to the page with the distinctive portrait of the Devil from which the text received its byname, the Devil's Bible. [1]The Codex Gigas ("Giant Book"; Czech: Obří kniha) is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). [2]
In the Digimon game, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, Mastemon is an Angel Digimon who manipulates light and darkness, and has the power to cross through space-time. [ 36 ] In the Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game, the card "Darklord Nasten" (堕天使マスティマ, datenshi [= Fallen Angel] Mastema ) is based on this demon.