High’ ” (Isa. 14:13–14). Every verb and every image in this passage points to Satan’s desire to rise to the apogee of God’s universe: I will ascend above the clouds, above the stars, above the heavens; I will sit on the mount of assembly; I will be like the Most High. Satan boasted that he would go up. But the words that follow speak of his actual destiny: “But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit.” Philippians 2:5–11 contains the New Testament counterpart to Satan’s words in Isaiah.