“Invidia autem diaboli mors introivit in orbem terrarum :”
“Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.”
“But by the envy of the devil death entered into the world, And they that are of his portion make trial thereof.”
Envy. Lucifer thought that the honour of the hypostatic union (Calmet) belonged to the angelical, rather than to the human nature; and this he was guilty of envy, (Haydock) and strove to become like the most High, Isaias xiv. 14. (St. Bernard, ser. xvii. in Canticle of Canticles) (Cornelius a Lapide, &c.)