“THE ENVY of the devil then was the reason of man’s fall. For that same demon, so full of envy and with such hatred of good, would suffer us to enjoy the pleasures of heaven, when he himself was kept below on account of his arrogance, hence the false one tempts miserable man with hope of the Godhead, and leading him up to as great a height of arrogance as himself, he hurls him down into a pit of destruction just as deep.”
~St. John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, 2, 30.