Footnote

a On page 3063, column 2, Volume 2 (edition of 1836) of the comments on the New Testament by Adam Clarke LL.D., as published in London, England, said in a footnote on Revelation 12:9: “That old serpent] The rabbins speak much of this being, sometimes under the notion of יצר הרע yetser hara, the evil principle, and sometimes Sammael.

“He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.] This is very like a saying in the book Bahir, in Sohar Gen., fol. 27, col. 107: ‘And God cast out Sammael and his troops from the place of their holiness.’”