Thomas Hobbes has this to say in Leviathan:
Part III. Of a Christian Commonwealth.Chap. xxxviii. Of Eternal Life, Hell, Salvation, and Redemption.
[12] And first, for the tormentors, we have their nature and properties exactly and properly delivered by the names of the Enemy (or Satan), the Accuser (or Diabolus), the Destroyer (or Abaddon). Which significant names (Satan, Devil, Abaddon) set not forth to us any individual person, as proper names do, but only an office or quality, and are therefore appellatives, which ought not to have been left untranslated (as they are in the Latin and modern Bibles), because thereby they seem to be the proper names of demons, and men are the more easily seduced to believe the doctrine of devils, which at that time was the religion of the Gentiles, and contrary to that of Moses, and of Christ.
[13] And because by the Enemy, the Accuser, and Destroyer, is meant the enemy of them that shall be in the kingdom of God, therefore if the kingdom of God after the resurrection be upon the earth (as in the former Chapter I have shewn by Scripture it seems to be), the Enemy and his kingdom must be on earth also. For so also was it in the time before the Jews had deposed God. For God's kingdom was in Palestine, and the nations round about were the kingdoms of the Enemy; and consequently, by Satan is meant any earthly enemy of the Church.
The Fairies in whatsoever nation they converse recognize but one universal king, which some poets of ours call King Oberon and the Scripture calls Beelzebub...
I know this is a old post but I feel I just had to say something.
I enjoy your posts very much. You are very charming. Interesting user name as well, I wonder do you admire him and his Hellfire club? Are you also the same Francis Dashwood from here: http://www.iidb.org/
Haha! Anyway good show.
Also as to GoodieD's post I have to disagree. Harry Potter and vampires really have nothing to do with Christianity.