Hippolytus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Hippolytus… (1885)
“ As, therefore, the primary and greatest power [1] of the animal essence came into existence, an image (of the only begotten Son) ; so also the devil, who is the ruler of this world, constitutes the power of the material essence, as Beelzebub is of the essence of demons which emanates from anxiety. ”
