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- "The relationship between God and man is not exclusive and closed. A third party intrudes, the great adversary (see chs. 1-2). Incapable of contending with God hand to hand, power pitted against power, he is bent on frustrating God's enterprise embodied in the creation and centered on the God-man relationship. As tempter he seeks to alienate man from God (see Ge 3; Mt 4:1); as accuser (one of the names by which he is called, SATAN, means 'accuser') he seeks to alienate God from man (see Zec 3:1; Rev 12:9-10). His all-consuming purpose is to drive an irremovable wedge between God and man, to effect an alienation that cannot be reconciled." (THE NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, © 1987 Zondervan, pp. 899-900)