DEVIL, SATAN

—The latter name means in Hebrew ‘enemy,’ and consequently in Christian theol. the archenemy of God and man, represented in the Bible as having the form of a serpent, the most subtle of beasts. In Milton he appears as an outcast of heaven, the lord of hell and the apostate angels. medizeval times he came to be represented as a goat-like figure, since the goat is the type of uncleanne . That he was supposed to be black in color is shown in many references in lit. Other names for the d. are A polly on, Lucifer, Beelzebub. The medieval conception of the d. is more particularly identified with Me phis top heles of the Faust legend, the incarnation of the spirit of universal