Job xli. 24, Sept.;
xli.
15: ἡ καρδία
αὐτοῦ…ἕστηκεν
ὥσπερ ἄκμων
ἀνήλατος. These
statements concerning the Devil seem to be directed against
Origen’s opinion (De Principiis I. 2), that the Angels
“who have been removed from their primal state of blessedness
have not been removed irrecoverably.” The question is
discussed, and the opinions of several Fathers quoted, by Huet,
Origeniana, II. c. 25.