Lactantius,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VII, The Divine Institutes…
(1885)
“ XV.—Of the Corruption of Angels, and the Two Kinds of Demons.When, therefore, the number of men had begun to increase, God in His forethought, lest the devil, to whom from the beginning He had given power over the earth, should by his subtilty either corrupt or destroy men, as he had done at first, sent angels for the protection and improvement [1] of the human race ”
