[[4]] 2 Cor. iv, 4.
[[5]] 2 Cor. xi, 14.
[[6]] St. Mark xiii, 22.
[[7]] Imitation, I, xiii.
[[8]] "The soul, from her nature, always relishes good, though it is true that the soul, blinded by self-love, does not know and discern what is true good."—St. Catherine of Siena, Dialogue, p. 122. (Thorold Trans., London, 1907.)
[[9]] "There is something satanic in the contempt and the ridicule with which men treat Satan. I say it is satanic because it is a Satanic illusion to make men cease to fear him, or cease even to believe in him. He is never more completely master of a man than when the man ridicules his existence,—when, as we hear in these days, men say, 'There is no devil.'"—H. E. Manning, Sin and Its Consequences, pp. 168-169.
[[10]] St. Luke xvi, 8.
[[11]] It is perhaps best to avoid such expressions as "personality of evil," lest they be misunderstood. "Evil cannot be personal in or of itself; it can only obtain the advantages of personal embodiment and action by being accepted by an already existing creature, endowed with will,—a creature which freely determines implicitly to accept it by rejecting good.... In Satan evil has become dominant and fixed as in a previously existing personal being; there was no such thing in the universe of the Almighty and All-good God as a self-existing or originally created devil."—Liddon, Passiontide Sermons, p. 95.
[[12]] "What do they exactly mean by this imposing phrase? How can evil itself be, strictly speaking, a principle? The essence of evil is absence of principle, principle being something positive. Evil is contradiction to positive principle."—Liddon, Passiontide Sermons, p. 88.
[[13]] Gen. i, 31.