ΣατᾶνSatân

Satan, the prince of the evil spirits, the inveterate adversary of God and of Christ, who incites to apostasy from God and to sin, and persecutes the saints: Mt. iv. 10; xii. 26; Mk. i. 13; iii. 23, 26; iv. 15; Lk. x. 18; xi. 18; xiii. 16; xxii. 3, 31; Jn. xiii. 27; Acts v. 3; xxvi. 18; Ro. xvi. 20; 1 Co. v. 5; vii. 5; 2 Co. ii. 11; xi. 14; xii. 7; 1 Th. ii. 18; 2 Th. ii. 9; 1 Tim. i. 20; v. 15; Rev. ii. 9, 13, 24; iii. 9; xii. 9; xx. 2, 7. He is called also ὁ ἄρχων τοῦ κόσμου τούτου, Jn. xii. 31; xiv. 30; xvi. 11; ὁ θεὸς τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου, 2 Co. iv. 4; ὁ ἄρχων τῆς ἐξουσίας τοῦ ἀέρος, Eph. ii. 2; ὁ πειράζων, Mt. iv. 3; 1 Th. iii. 5; ὁ διάβολος (q. v.), Mt. iv. 1, etc.; ὁ πονηρός (q. v.), Mt. v. 37, etc.; the accuser, κατήγωρ, Rev. xii. 10; the old serpent, ὁ ὄφις ὁ ἀρχαῖος, Rev. xii. 9; xx. 2; Beelzebul, Βεελζεβούλ (q. v.), Mt. x. 25; xii. 24, etc.; Belial, Βελίαλ (q. v.), 2 Co. vi. 15. The Jews spoke of ‘the prince of the demons’ as שַׂר הַמַּזִּיקִין (the prince of the hurtful spirits); see Eisenmenger, Entdecktes Judenthum, i. p. 819 sq. On the O. T. conceptions of Satan see the reff. s. v. διάβολος, and Riehm, HWB. s. v. Satan; on the N. T. conceptions, in addition to the works on Bibl. Theol. (and the Comm. on the pass. referred to), see Roskoff, Geschichte des Teufels (Leipz. 1869), vol. ii. pp. 260–371; [cf. B. D. Am. ed. and Schaff-Herzog s. v. Satan].*