John speaks of the great conflict at the end of time, which reflects also the battle in heaven at the beginning of time." He added that Michael's name "was the war-cry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against the enemy and his followers". Michael the Archangel", Frederick Holweck wrote: "St. In the Catholic Encyclopedia (1911) article "St. And when God, by his almighty power, overcame the strength of Satan, and sent him like lightning from heaven to hell with all his army Satan still hoped to get the victory by subtlety Satan and his angels rebelled against God in heaven, and proudly presumed to try their strength with his. Jonathan Edwards states in his sermon Wisdom Displayed in Salvation: a declaration by God that all were to be subject to his Son, the Messiah (as in Milton's Paradise Lost).the culmination of a gradual distancing from God through rebellion (an idea of Origen of Alexandria).Islamic tradition holds a similar view: Iblis refuses to bow down to Adam.
a refusal to bow down to mankind on the occasion of the creation of man-as in the Armenian, Georgian, and Latin versions of the Life of Adam and Eve.As a result of linking this motif with the cited passage of the Book of Revelation, the casting of Satan down from heaven, which other versions of the motif present as an action of God himself, has become attributed to the archangel Michael at the conclusion of a war between two groups of angels, of whom (because of the mention of the dragon's tail casting a third of the stars of heaven to the earth) one third are supposed to have been on the side of Satan, in spite of the fact that the casting down of the stars ( Revelation 12:4) is recounted as occurring before the start of the "war in heaven" ( Revelation 12:7).Ĭommentators have attributed Satan's rebellion to a number of motives, all of which stem from his great pride.
The Christian tradition has stories about angelic beings cast down from heaven by God, often presenting the punishment as inflicted in particular on Satan. Revelation 12:7–10 (NIV) Interpretations
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