I wonder why did "Jack" give to the tempter in Screwtape Letters name "Wormwood" ?
recently I've found out that wormwood means certain plant (lat. artemisia)...
(In my native language translation of Screwtape Letters there isn't name Wormwood translated by the name of that certain plant...(lat. artemisia))
and I wonder if it has something to do with the verse (Revelation 8,11)
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; 11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. (KJV)
I see no connection between these two Wormwoods, probably it's just random
but incidentally, does anybody have some explanation ?