Satan

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Jesus once adressed Peter, it is written in St. Mattew 16:20-23:

"Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, that how he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priest and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men."

And it is written in St. Matthew 4:10:

"Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written: Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."

To look up passages in the Bible I most often use two books of mine written by Gunnar Johnstad, published by Det Norske Bibelselskap. Translated to English by Google Translate, Johnstad writes this about Satan:

SATAN
is a Hebrew word that means "adversary, accuser" and corresponds to the Greek diabolos, the devil. In the Old Testament, Satan is perceived as the evil power that seduces people into sin. Satan later came to be perceived as an independent opponent of God, as the evil enemy of people and as the origin of all evil in the world. This is how he also appears in the New Testament, and Satan then functions as a name.

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