[[3]] "It seems certain that this sin was pride, which is the beginning of all sin.... More specifically, the pride of the fallen angels seems to have been a refusal to accept the position of creature, subject in all things to their Creator."—Hunter, Outlines of Dogmatic Theology, 448.
[[4]] Rom. v, 20.
[[5]] "According to the divine economy, the Evil One is not consigned at once to the place of punishment allotted to him, but is permitted to be at large for the trial and probation of men; that he may, though contrary to his own design, render the Saints more righteous through patience, and become the cause of greater glory to them."—St. Macarius the Egyptian, Institutes of Christian Perfection, Bk. IV, ch. ii (London, 1816).
[[6]] Ps. cvii, 16.
[[7]] Ps. xcviii, 2.
[[8]] Rom. v, 12.
[[9]] 1 Cor. xv, 55. Compare Hosea xiii, 14.
[[10]] Heb. xii, 23.
[[11]] Moberly, The Administration of the Holy Spirit, p. 25.
[[12]] "For Thou, even Thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men."—1 Kings viii, 39.