Of the others, Satan in chains, the General Resurrection, and a delicately executed Tree of Jesse are the best.

"Satan is a liar.

Satan, according to the Miltonic mythology, was the founder of the first sect; and his philosophy was that it was better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Yes, when he is great; but his Satan is often a thing to be thrown out of the way among the rods and fools' caps of the nursery .

Milton has described in Satan the greatest of human passions, supernatural attributes, directed to immortal intents, and stung with inextinguishable revenge; but Satan is only a dilatation of man.

There was never yet a lie uttered which did not bring more of harm than of good; nor will there ever be a harmless lie, while God is Truth, and Satan is the father of lies.

Satan is their guide, the flesh is their instructor, hypocrisy their counsellor, vanity their fellow-soldier, their will their law, ambition their captain, custom their rule; temerity, boldness, impudence their art, toys their trading, damnation their end.

But Satan is a creature of another sphere.

The tricksy elf Puck may be a sprite, or even the fantastic creation Ariel; but neither Milton's Satan nor Milton's Ithuriel, nor surely Milton himself, could possibly be a sprite, while the limits of language and of common sense are observed.

But, as it has always been, the greater the good, the nearer the evil; Satan is next-door neighbor to the saint; Eden had a lurking-hole for the serpent.

Satan, the great enemy of souls, is the same to-day as he was in Nehemiah's time.

If Dan should die, Satan wouldn't be no more use to other men than a piece of haltered lightnin'.

Hal, I don't give a damn for women folk, but I've travelled around a long time with a picture of a hoss in my brain, an' Satan is the hoss.

Satan is the prince of the power of the air; with principalities and powers beneath him; over all of whom Christ won the victory on his cross.

Satan am a snake.

It has been said that Satan is the hero of Paradise Lost.

Whether the "glorious darkness" denoted by the name Satan is an actual personage or a maleficent influence, is of secondary moment as far as the aim and moral of this discourse are concerned.

Ceasing to be an angel, Satan became a devil.

That woman, though unconsciously, has wrought me such irreparable harm that I ought to hate her, but cannot,first, because I am conscious that, had she never crossed my path, I should have probably found some other means to wreck my happiness; secondly, as Satan is a fallen angel, so hatred is degenerated love, and I never loved Laura.

But what relation to all this has a system of interpretation which keeps the mind of the Christian in the position of a spectator at a gladiatorial show, of which Satan is the wild beast in the shape of a great red dragon, and two thirds of mankind the victimsthe whole provided and got up by God for the edification of the saints?