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Luke 10:26

“What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”

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ASV

And he said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

KJV

He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

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γέγραπται;gegraptaihas been written?G1125 →
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ἀναγινώσκεις;¶anaginōskeisread you?G314 →

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Matthew 19:4Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’Matthew 9:13But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”Matthew 12:3Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.Romans 10:5For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”Galatians 3:21–22Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.Mark 2:25Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?Nehemiah 13:1At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,Romans 4:14–16For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,Galatians 3:12–13The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”

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Bruegel's Fall of the Rebel Angels — the older Christian reading of the demonic's origin.

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Demonology

What Scripture actually says about the unseen adversary — named, bounded, and already defeated.

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La Chute des anges rebelles (The Fall of the Rebel Angels) — Gustave Doré

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I Saw Satan Fall

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Christ in the House of Martha and Mary — Johannes Vermeer

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Mary and Martha: Luke 10:38–42

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) — the tradition that read Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 as the adversary's own fall.

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The Origin of Evil

Two taunt-songs, two named kings, and the fall the church has heard behind them — Isaiah 14 facing Ezekiel 28.

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Guido Reni, The Archangel Michael defeating Satan: the war of Revelation 12 in a single frame.

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Satan

The adversary of Scripture — serpent in a garden, dragon in a lake of fire, and a real fallen being whose defeat was sealed at the cross.

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Guido Reni, St. Michael Trampling the Devil (c. 1635): the enemy of Revelation 12 named and defeated.

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The Names of Satan

Scripture rarely gives the adversary a plain name — it gives him titles, and each one is a claim about what he does.

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Mary and Martha — Gustave Doré (engraving), public domain
Mary and Martha — Gustave Doré (engraving), public domain
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