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392 Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels. ²⁶⁹ This "fall" consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. We find a reflection of that rebellion in the tempter's words to our first parents: "You will be like God." ²⁷⁰ The devil "has sinned from the beginning"; he is "a liar and the father of lies". ²⁷¹

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269 Cf. 2 Pt 2:4.

270 Gen 3:5.

271 I Jn 3:8; Jn 8:44.

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