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III.
Justin
well said: Before the advent of the Lord, Satan never ventured to
blaspheme God, inasmuch as he was not yet sure of his own damnation,
since that was announced concerning him by the prophets only in parables
and allegories. But after the advent of the Lord learning plainly from
the discourses of Christ and His apostles that eternal fire was prepared
for him who voluntarily departed from God and for all who, without
repentance, persevere in apostasy, then, by means of a man of this sort,
he, as if already condemned, blasphemes that God who inflicts judgment
upon him, and imputes the sin of his apostasy to his Maker, instead of to
his own will and predilection.—Irenæus: Heresies, v.
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