In the Bible of western religions, "7" is a mysterious number, which is fully demonstrated in the Old Testament. /kloc-After the 6th century, Christianity directly represented the seven evils with the images of Satan's seven demons. The seven deadly sins were listed by Thomas Aquinas, a theologian in the13rd century. include
Pride (pride)
Envy (envy)
Anger (anger)
Sloth (sloth)
Greed (greed)
Gluttony (gluttony)
Lust (lust)
The film "Seven Deaths":
William is a criminal policeman of new york Police Department and an expert in homicide. He has been a policeman for 32 years. He has been working hard almost every minute for years. He has seen and felt too much misfortune. He felt very tired. Fortunately, he will retire in seven days and finally enjoy his retirement.
In order to take over his job, the boss assigned him a new partner-young Mills, who moved to new york with his wife Tracy. At first, Tracy didn't agree to come to this chaotic city, but Mills thought that only here could he take over some important cases, so under his various persuasion, Tracy agreed. William's style is rigorous and sophisticated, while Mills is a little impulsive. He is very proud of the way William handled the case.
Maybe it's predestined. Mills' first case was William's last case-a surprisingly fat man was killed at home, but at the scene, Mills and William didn't find any clues.
Then another case happened. Gert, a rich defense lawyer, was killed. On the floor of the murder scene, the murderer wrote two words in blood: greed. Careful William returned to the previous crime scene without revealing every clue, and finally found two words behind the refrigerator: gluttony. Only then did they realize that he was forced to eat a lot of food until his stomach burst and he died.
William suddenly thought of the sentence in Paradise Lost-the seven deadly sins of Christianity: gluttony, greed, laziness, anger, pride, lust and jealousy. He thinks that there will be five murders next, which has a terrible connection with other commandments, but Mills doesn't believe it.
Tracy invited William to dinner at home. Mills is a little unhappy, but Tracy and William have a good talk.
The fingerprints found at the scene made Gert's client, drug dealer Victor, a suspect. He has a criminal record and mental illness. But when the police arrived to arrest him, they found him dead and the word "lazy" was written on the wall.
Through the investigation data in the library, William finally locked the reporter anonymous, a pervert who peeled off the skin on his finger in order not to leave fingerprints. But when William and Mills went to look for him, he had already slipped away. At John's house, they found a photo of a blonde prostitute. But when they found her, she was already dead, and the word "lust" was beside her.
On Sunday, William will retire, and John called them to tell them that he did it again. -A woman died naked in bed with the word "pride" written next to her. William decided to finish the case before he retired, but John suddenly dropped out of the first place. Cautious William thinks things will not be so simple, because there are still two unfinished crimes, and John must have something fishy.
John admitted that there were two more bodies and was willing to take them to find them. At this moment, someone sent a package to Mills. When William opened it, he found Tracy's head in it. John told Mills that it was jealousy that killed Tracy.
In anger and sadness, Mills couldn't help himself and shot John-he committed the crime of "anger" and was the last person to complete the Seven Commandments.
Watching Mills be taken to the police car, William was silent in the face of the sunset.
Imagination or fate
The English name of the film has only one striking and shocking word-"seven", which is a mysterious number in religion and fully expressed in the Old Testament. God made Adam in seven days, and took out Adam's seventh rib to make Eve. Satan's original body is a fire dragon with seven heads, and the seven fallen angels on earth are called Satan. /kloc-After the 6th century, Catholicism directly used the images of Satan's seven demons to represent seven evils-arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony and lust.
Seven deadly sins and fallen angels
"Seven" is a mysterious number in religion. God made Adam in seven days, and took out Adam's seventh rib to make Eve. Satan's original body is a dragon with seven heads, and at the same time * * * seven fallen angels are called Satan, so Christianity uses the image of Satan's seven demons to represent the seven deadlysins: gluttony, greed, laziness, lust and jealousy.
The crime of arrogance is Lucifer, greed is the god of wealth, lust is the devil in Jewish mythology, anger is Satan, gluttony is Beelzebub, laziness is Belir, and Leviathan is the crime of jealousy. The above is just one of the different opinions about the characters referred to in The Seven Deaths. )
But I'm not sure which chapter of the Bible it comes from, because I don't seem to see these seven deadly sins come from the Bible!
Satan is actually a synonym, meaning "enemy". In Paradise Lost, the archangel Raphael said to Adam, "Satan is his present name, and his name in heaven has been lost." . The image of Satan in the Bible is first of all a clever snake that seduces Eve, right? Secondly, the devil who pointed out to Jesus in the desert the splendor of all the nations in the world and said, "If you will worship me, all this is yours"? Almost all of them are negative images, but somehow they will leave a very good impression on me. Generally speaking, he is a cool and clever little devil. Satan is the biggest devil in hell, and seven fallen angels can be called Satan. One of the most famous is Lucifer (I have talked about this misunderstanding above), and the rest are also called Satan's demons as follows:
Abaddon: Revelation records that when the fifth angel blows the horn, there will be a "destroyer". When the horn sounded, a star in the sky would fall to the ground, opening the door of the bottomless pit where black smoke covered the sky, and then the locust demon army headed by Abadong would come out and make mankind suffer for five months. Abadon is the Hebrew word for Abad-he can kill people-and the Greek translation is Apollyon, which means "Destroyer".
Samael: It is not recorded in the Christian Bible. It is a degenerate angel who appears in the foreign canon "Greek Balk Revelation". Its name means "poisonous glorious messenger", and Gaisam means "poison" in Hebrew. It is alleged in the book that the so-called knowledge tree is actually just a vine planted by Samael. God cursed the tree and forbade humans to eat it. Adam ate fermented grapes and drank wine, so he was exiled by God. Samael was once a blazing angel, a snake-shaped angel with 12 wings (some people say that the image of blazing angel is a snake), and is also called "angel of death" in the world. "Samael stood in front of a dog howling at night with a gun coated with bile, spreading death while walking."
Belir: It means "worthless" and "useless". It's a strange name. Being the first born angel and being conceited, calling yourself the nail of Satan, is the most dangerous and vicious of all fallen angels. His most successful counterattack after heaven was to instigate the kingdom of Judah to rebel against God again and worship its witchcraft, so that it was abandoned by God and destroyed by Babylon.
Belir was originally an angel of strength, and his noble qualities made him elegant and noble even if he was banished to hell. However, according to Paradise Lost, he is a coward in the golden treasure. They are willing to drag out an ignoble existence in hell, hoping that God will forget their crimes and turn over. However, in the battle between the son of light and the son of □ in the Dead Sea document, Belir was accused of being the deputy monarch of heaven, the commander of □ Legion, and the first conspirator to rebel against heaven.
Beelzebub: Also known as Baalib, Baalib, "Homeowner" and "Lord of the Flies". There are traces of this demon king in Greek mythology, because Zeus, the father of all gods, is also called "the fly-dodger". In fact, Baalib's reputation in Palestine is second only to that of Lucifer. Even when Jesus was treating people, some people questioned whether he was driving out Beelzebub, the ghost king. Paradise Lost depicts him as a sage with thought and dignity, second only to Lucifer among those who have fallen into heaven.
Azazel: As mentioned above.
Mastema: Hebrew for "malice" and Aramaic for "condemnation". There are many stories about this fallen angels in Enoch. Basically, together with Azazel, he is the commander of the guardian angel.
Satanael or Satanail: It is the name of the devil introduced by the Bogomir school that rose in Macedonia (now Bulgaria and Yugoslavia) in the first half of the 10 century. This name is also mentioned in the Book of Enoch, but it is said that he is a member of the guardian angel. In the view of God of Bogomil School, Nathaniel and Christ are the twin brothers of God, and Nathaniel becomes the noblest angel and sits on the right seat of God. He was banished from heaven with his 1/3 angels because he wanted to achieve further equality with God. Since I can't be a god in heaven, I want to create my own world to be a god in this new world. So he created the material world, Adam and Eve, and so on. God allowed him to rule the world. This kind of thought is very similar to Gnosticism. In short, it is to completely abandon all material comforts, deny the devil's creative achievements, and seek to return to the most high god. Gnostics believe that the supreme God seals the light of the supreme God in the human body, and we must find this light if we want to defeat the creator (the devil, Satanel). Satanel, of course, has the position of the blazing angel, so the Twelve Wings are natural.
/kloc-After the 6th century, Satan was regarded by Christianity as the embodiment of the seven deadly sins: the pride of Lucifer, the greed of the god of wealth, Satan's anger, the devil's desire in Jewish mythology, the devil's gluttony, Leviathan's jealousy and Belphegor's laziness. The devil mentioned above is not the incarnation of Nathaniel, but the representative devil of all kinds of sins that Nathaniel bears. However, from the present point of view, the seven deadly sins are just nonsense of medieval Christianity: P
In addition to what has already been introduced in Satan's section, those representative magical things are introduced as follows:
Mammon: The name of the devil, also known as Amamon, rose among Jews in the Old Testament and the New Testament, which means "wealth" in ancient Syrian. Is the evil god of wealth, luring people to kill each other for wealth. In Paradise Lost, the angels sent to hell dug up countless treasures and built their own temples under the command of the God of Wealth.
Ashmaud: This demon may have been handed down from Persia by the Sect of □. It was originally one of the six subordinates of Nestorianism Ahriman Sect, and Ishma-the god of lust. It evolved into Christianity and appeared in foreign Canon Tobit (one of the Israelis who were brought to Babylon after the Jews were exterminated by Babylon). He monopolized his favorite human woman and killed all the men who married her. Finally, the archangel Raphael tricked him out of his true colors and fled to Egypt, where he was captured by the archangel Gabriel.
Leviathan: In the Book of Job in the Old Testament, the giant crocodile that God showed Job in the whirlwind originated from the snake worship culture absorbed by Israel in Egypt. When the ancients saw the snake peeling off and went away, they mistakenly thought that the snake was immortal, so there was a custom of worshipping snakes everywhere, and its evolution was like the worship of crocodiles and dragon gods. In the Book of Job, besides Leviathan the crocodile, there are behemoths, which are synonymous with today's behemoths.
Belphegor: Originally one of the Assyrian demons, he hated women. After being absorbed by Christian culture, the original image has disappeared, and somehow it has become a symbol of laziness.
The seven deadly sins do not come from a chapter in the Old Testament, but run through it!