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Etching by Pietro del Po, The Canaanite (or Syrophoenician) woman asks Christ to cure, c. 1650.. The woman described in the miracle, the Syrophoenician woman (Mark 7:26; [8] Συροφοινίκισσα, Syrophoinikissa) is also called a "Canaanite" (Matthew 15:22; [9] Χαναναία, Chananaia) and is an unidentified New Testament woman from the region of Tyre and Sidon.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. The New International Version translates the passage as:
The Devil depicted in The Temptation of Christ, by Ary Scheffer, 1854. The three Synoptic Gospels all describe the temptation of Christ by Satan in the desert (Matthew 4:1–11, Mark 1:12–13, and Luke 4:1–13). [79] Satan first shows Jesus a stone and tells him to turn it into bread. [79]
The Devil depicted in The Temptation of Christ, by Ary Scheffer, 1854. The devil figures much more prominently in the New Testament and in Christian theology than in the Old Testament and Judaism. Religion scholar William Caldwell writes that "In the Old Testament we have seen that the figure of Satan is vague. ...
This agrees with verse 16 which states, that the woman "Satan had kept bound for eighteen long years." In the same manner the devil afflicted Job with various diseases (Job 2, see also Ps. 78:49 [2]). He further writes that, "the devil, therefore, made this woman crooked and bent, to compel her always to look down upon the earth." [3]
Source: 2 Timothy 3:8, [10] Book of Jasher chapter 79 [11] Antiquities of the Jews Book 2 [12] Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ Chapter 109 [13] Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII [14] Easton's Bible Dictionary [15] The Book of the Bee Chapter 30 [16] Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. XIII [17] Legends of the Jews Volume 2 Chapter 4, [18 ...
The Fallen Angel (1847) by Alexandre Cabanel. The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.He appeared in the King James Version of the Bible in Isaiah [1] and before that in the Vulgate (the late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible), [2] not as the name of a devil but as the Latin word lucifer (uncapitalized), [3] [4] meaning "the ...
The woman gives birth to a male child who is threatened by a dragon, identified as the Devil and Satan, who intends to devour the child as soon as he is born. When the child is taken to heaven, the woman flees on eagle’s wings into the wilderness at a "place prepared of God" for 1,260 days.