The Testimony of the Soul 3

Indeed, when we affirm that demons exist (as though we did not also prove it, we who alone drive them out of bodies), some follower of Chrysippus mocks. Your curses answer both that they exist and that they are objects of loathing. You call a man a “demon” who is offensive, whether through filth or malice or insolence or any stain which we assign to demons, to the point of necessary hatred. Finally, in every vexation, contempt, and detestation you pronounce the name of Satan, whom we call the angel of wickedness, the artificer of all error, the corrupter of the whole world, by whom man was deceived from the beginning so as to transgress the commandment of God, and, therefore given over to death, thereafter made the whole race, infected from his seed, the transmitter of his condemnation too. You sense, then, your destroyer; and although only Christians, or whatever sect is with the Lord, know him, you too know him while you hate him.