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Satan and the beasts condemned to eternal torment.
The unbelieving Jews are "a synagogue of Satan" (ii.
Adam, like Satan in Ecclus.
They believed in the existence of two gods, a good (whose son was Christ) and an evil (whose son was Satan); matter is the creation of the evil principle, and therefore essentially evil, and the greatest of all sins is sexual intercourse, even in marriage; sinful also is the possession of material goods, and the eating of flesh meat, and many other things.
If his evil works outweigh his good, he falls finally under the power of Satan, Vand the pains of hell are his portion for ever.