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In Jewish belief, Satan never became the devil. He remained the loyal assistant of God, tasked with tempting the faithful in order to prove their righteousness.

It is only in later Christian belief that Satan began to be seen as a fallen angel, and as the devil, the evil adversary of God. This probably began with the misinterpretation of Isaiah chapter 14, which refers to the king of Babylon, who laid the nations low. It talks of his pomp and splendour, how he had ruled the nations in anger, and his fate after his overthrow by the king of Persia. He had compared himself to the Morning Star (and was thus derisorily called 'Lucifer' - lucem ferre, which mean "light-bearer", a name for the dawn appearance of the planet Venus) and had thought that he would ascend into heaven and sit among the stars, but was now himself persecuted. Christian scholars misunderstood this text and assumed that it referred to Satan, the devil of Christian belief, being thrown from heaven.

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Yahweh had become powerful and maniacal (if you may). Satan could not stand for this and rebelled against Yahweh. For this, he was punished by Yahweh.

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