THE ACCUSER — not the ordinary Greek word for a prosecutor (katēgoros, which most later manuscripts smooth this to), but a rarer, Semitic-flavored form found almost nowhere else in surviving Greek — a foreign-sounding title for a figure John elsewhere leaves untranslated as SATAN, itself Hebrew for 'accuser.' English keeps the ordinary root in CATEGORY, a thing one is accused, or charged, of belonging to. The scene it names — a prosecutor accusing a man before God 'day and night' — restages Job 1:6 and Zechariah 3:1's own heavenly courtrooms a third and final time, only here the court itself is dissolved. → first discussed at Rev 12:10