Nay, so set was he now upon sheer evil that he would act it of his own accord, and without any instigation at all from Diabolus.

And that went on till he was looked on in the city as next in wickedness to very Diabolus himself.

Parable apart, my ill-willed brethren, our ill-will has made us very fiends in human shape.

What a fall, what a fate, what a curse it is to be possessed of a devil of ill-will! Who can put proper words on it after Paul had to confess himself silent before it?
Who can utter the diabolical nature, the depth and the secrecy, the subtlety and the spirituality, the range and the reach-out of an ill-will?
Our hearts are full of ill-will at those we meet and shake hands with every day.

At men also we have never seen, and who are totally ignorant even of our existence.