The Personality of Satan part 2

The same Divine authority has caused to be put on record not only the fiery ordeal of personal conflict with him in the wilderness for forty days and nights, but also numerous other instances of terrible engagements between the saints and the great adversary.  With all these and many more such proofs of external evil influence directly exercised on us, how is it possible to confound the personalty of Satan with the principle of evil in the fallen nature of man? 

Yet, if any would even still object, what shall be said of such plain passages as the following ?—

'And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.''

'Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.'

'But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub, the chief of the devils' 'If Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand ?'

'Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well; the devils also believe and tremble.'s

'He said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And He asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion; for we are many.'

'Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.'

"God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell."

'Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.'

'When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.'

'In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.'

'He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil! 
'That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil! 

Here are many proofs, all going to enforce the solemn point in hand—namely, that there are in existence upon earth a multitude of mysterious beings, called by the Spirit of truth by various titles and names, whose nature is wholly evil, and who, actuated by feelings vindictive towards God and man, are actively engaged in opposing the glory of God and the well being of the human family; and further, that this evil angel host is presided over by a chief, whose present territory is the wide world of the heart of man, and who aims at pressing every event and circumstance of human life into his fiendish service.