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Satan hindered his work, or warns the Corinthians that
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and tells them that his own sore trouble in the flesh was, like Job's,
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him. Not less clear is the teaching of St. Peter and St. John in Epistles which, with those of St. Paul to the Corinthians, are among the best authenticated works in ancient literature.
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Your adversary the devil as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour, says the one:
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He that doeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning, says the other. And, if we need higher authority, there is the declaration of Christ to the malignant and unbelieving Jews.
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Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. [32] With regard to this last passage, those who deny the personal existence of Satan must maintain either (1) that the Evangelist here attributes to Christ words which He never used; or (2) that Christ was willing to make use of a monstrous superstition in order to denounce his opponents with emphasis; or (3) that He Himself erroneously believed in the existence of a being who was a mere figment of an unenlightened imagination: in other words, that