we find Jude speaking of "the angels that kept
not their first estate" (Jude 6), and Peter, of "the angels that sinned"
(2 Peter 2:4); and these they further declare, were cast down to Tartarus,
and are reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment
of the great day.

There must have been to this rebellion an instigator and leader; and we
accordingly find the Bible speaking of such a personage; the whole company
being described as "the Devil and his angels." Our Lord pointed out this
leader in evil, and his work, in John 8:44: "Ye are of your Father the
Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and abode 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 of it." This reveals the great facts in his case. He abode not in
the truth. Then he was once in the truth; and as he is a liar, and the
father of it, he was the first one to depart from truth and introduce
falsehood and evil into the universe of God.

In Isaiah (14:12-14) this being is addressed as Lucifer, or the day-star;
and the prophet exclaims, "How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son
of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken
the nations!" The following verses indicate that the nature of his
transgression was self-exaltation and pride of heart: "For thou hast said
in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in
the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I
will be like the Most High." Paul, in 1 Tim. 3:6, intimates that it was
this pride that caused the ruin of this once holy being. Of an elder he
says that he must not be a novice, "lest being lifted up with pride he
fall into the condemnation of the Devil," or that sin for which the Devil
was condemned.

In Ezekiel 28, Satan is again spoken of under the pseudonym of "the prince
of Tyrus." Verse 2 shows his pride: "Because thine heart is lifted up, and
thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God," etc. Verses 12-15
describe his beauty, wisdom, and apparel, and his exalted office as a high
cherub, before his sin and fall. Verse 15 reads: "Thou wast perfect in thy
ways from the day thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee."

These passages give us a sufficient idea of the origin of Satan and how