good thing, like being, life, knowledge, power—briefly, everything one might term good—as though the creature were indeed one of these goods, or as though the Good belongs to the creature—in such situations the creature is turning away from God. Was that not what the devil did? What else did his apostasy and fall consist of but that he assumed for himself that he, too, was something, and that something was his and that something was his own property.23 This assumption and his “I” and his “Me” and