– From the Hebrew satan , through the Latin, the one who lays traps. This is how Jesus calls Peter, who wanted to dissuade him from going to Jerusalem to suffer:
Mt 16:23 : But Jesus, turning to him, said to him: “Get behind me, Satan!”.
– Receives other names: evil, enemy, liar, seducer, prince of this world:
Mt 5:37 : Everything beyond this comes from the Evil One.
Mt 13:39 : The enemy who sowed it is the devil.
Jn 8:44 : You are of your father the devil and you want to do the desires of your father.
Jo 12,31 : Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
Jn 14:30 : I will no longer speak much with you, because the prince of this world is coming; but he has nothing on me.
Jo 16,11 : He will convince him about the judgment, which consists in that the prince of this world is already judged and condemned.
Eph 2:2: What you did once, following the way of life of this world, of the prince of the power of the air.
Eph 6:12 : For it is not against men of flesh and blood that we have to fight, but against principalities and powers.
Rev 12:9 : Then the great Dragon, the primitive Serpent, called the Devil, was cast down.
– Linked to the world of darkness, he opposes the Light that is Christ:
Lk 10:18 : Jesus said to them: “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning”.
Jo 12,31 : Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
Jn 14:30 : I will no longer speak much with you, because the prince of this world is coming; but he has nothing on me.
Jo 16,11.33 : He will convince him about the judgment, […] that the prince of this world is already judged and condemned.
Acts 26:18 : “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And at the same time he left.
Rev 12,7-9 : Then the great Dragon, the primitive Serpent, was cast down.
Rev 20,2-3.10 : He caught the Dragon, the primitive Serpent, who is the Devil and Satan.
– And to his followers:
2Cor 11,14-15 : Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light, it seems quite normal for his ministers to disguise themselves.
Eph 4:27 : Do not give way to the devil.
Eph 6:11-12 : Put on the armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand the wiles of the devil.
1Pt 5,8-9 : Your adversary, the devil, walks around you like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Revelation 12:17 : This man then became angry with the Woman and went to make war with the rest of her offspring.
– In the AT is identified as the enemy of man since the beginning:
Gen 3,1-6 : The serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had formed.
1Ch 21,1 : Satan rose up against Israel and urged David to take a census of Israel.
Job 1,6-7 : One day when the sons of God presented themselves before the Lord, Satan also came among them.
Job 2,1-2 : One day when the sons of God presented themselves before the Lord, Satan appeared.
Wis 2:24 : It is through the envy of the devil that death entered the world, and those who belong to the devil will taste it.
Zech 3,1-2 : Joshua, standing before the angel of the Lord; Satan was at his right hand as the accuser.
– See DEMON.
