madness to the desire to take up arms against his Lord God.
Wherefore he was cast out of his rank and dignity, and in the
stead of his former blissful glory and angelick name received the
name of the `Devil' and `Satan' for his title. God banished him
as unworthy of the glory above. And together with him there was
drawn away and hurled forth a great multitude of the company of
angels under him, who were evil of choice, and chose in place of
good, to follow in the rebellion of their leader. These were
called Devils, as being deluders and deceivers.

"Thus then did the devil utterly renounce the good, and assume an
evil nature; and he conceived spite against man, seeing himself
hurled from such glory, and man raised to such honour; and he
schemed to oust him from that blissful state. So he took the
serpent for the workshop of his own guile. Through him he
conversed with the woman, and persuaded her to eat of that
forbidden tree in the hope of being as God, and through her he
deceived Adam also, for that was the first man's name. So Adam
ate of the tree of disobedience, and was banished by his maker
from that paradise of delight, and, in lieu of those happy days
and that immortal life, fell alas! into this life of misery and
woe, and at the last received sentence of death. Thenceforth the
devil waxed strong and boastful through his victory; and, as the
race of man multiplied, he prompted them in all manner of
wickedness. So, wishing to cut short the growth of sin, God
brought a deluge on the earth, and destroyed every living soul.
But one single righteous man did God find in that generation; and
him, with wife and children, he saved alive in an Ark, and set
him utterly desolate on earth. But, when the human race again
began to multiply, they forgat God, and ran into worse excess of