2 I made the heavens open to him, that he should see the angels singing the song of victory, and the gloomless light. (2EN) 3 And he was continuously in paradise, and the devil understood that I wanted to create another world, because Adam was lord on earth, to rule and control it. (2EN) 4 The devil is the evil spirit of the lower places, as a fugitive he made Sotona from the heavens as his name was Satanail, thus he became different from the angels, but his nature did not change his intelligence as far as his understanding of righteous and sinful things. (2EN)
2 Enoch 31:2–4
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