Word: satanic
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...death penalty accepted as inevitable (though the 13-year-old state of Israel has never hanged anyone before), some Israelis wonder what should be done with Eichmann's body. A former inmate of a Nazi death camp explained, "We cannot profane the Holy Land by burying that Satan here. But if we send the body to Argentina or Germany, neo-Nazis will make a shrine of his grave." His solution: "Dump the corpse in midocean, or send it into outer space...
...Bite on Boldly." Violence is vivid in the mysteries; Herod's soldiers slaughter three infants onstage, and even modern audiences blanch at green-faced, gloating Satan hissing among the writhing sinners before pitchforking them through the fanged jaws of Hell. Biblical characters have a buttonholing immediacy, like doddering, officious Noah, who groans...
Much of the dialogue rings with alliterative beauty. Satan coaxes Eve to "Bite on boldly be not abashed"; Eve echoes to Adam, "Bite on boldly," and rueful Adam grieves that he has betrayed God and "Broken his bidding bitterly...
...Might not the Holy Scripture itself reveal some needed light along this line? See 7 Corinthians 7:5-"Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency...
...Satan Back to Heaven? In his treatise De Mortalitate, written probably in A.D. 252 to comfort Christians during the ravages of a plague, Cyprian summed up the solaces with which men have long made do in the face of death: the fact that all the great and brave have suffered the same fate, the thought of death as a rest from labor and a surcease from sorrow, the idea that the good die young. But his main argument was that death for a Christian means "to be changed and reformed to the image of Christ and to the dignity...