Word: marrou
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...fallen angel," a pure spirit without a body who tempts man to sin. He is not the principle of Evil, since Evil is itself a negative quality, i.e., merely the lack of Good in God's imperfect creatures. As French Historian Henri-Irénée Marrou explains it, it is like the holes in a sponge. "Evil," he continues, "is something that need not have existed ... It reveals in all its depth and ambivalence the mystery of liberty . . . Satan, an angel, is the free being who first chose to move away from the Source of all being...