Heav’d on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.” And the same holds good regarding the enemy of mankind who was cast out of heaven, whom the Sacred Scriptures call the Devil,807 a name which he obtained from his first devilry against man; and if any one would attentively consider the matter, he would find that the poet, though he certainly never mentions the name of “the devil,” yet gives him a name from his wickedest action. For the poet, calling him Ate,808 says that he was hurled from heaven by their god, just as if he had a distinct remembrance of the expressions which Isaiah the prophet had uttered regarding him. He wrote thus in his own poem:809— “And, seizing by her glossy locks The goddess Ate, in his wrath he swore That never to the starry skies again, And the Olympian heights, he would permit The universal mischief to return. Then, whirling her around, he cast her down To earth. She, mingling with all works of men, Caused many a pang to Jove.” 807 The false accuser; one who does injury by slanderous accusations. 808 ᾽Ατη, the goddess of mischief, from whom spring all rash, blind deeds and their results. 809 Iliad, xix. 126. 763 Chapter XXVIII.—Homer’s obligations to the sacred writers.