Wolfe’s book Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It. These kinds of “systemic evil” are realities we can own … we can do something about them. We cannot do this with a mythic Satan in the far-off reaches of the universe doing evil on the earth. Therefore, in the following chapters I will try to use the term “systemic evil” where appropriate instead of Satan. As we examine Paul we need to separate: (a) where “Satan” functions in a similar way to the Hebrew hassatan … as God’s faithful attorney