_Arnobius_[111] says, _That before Christ, Devils were things unknown to the World_; by which _Arnobius_ must mean, either that they were hardly talk'd of before, or that their Nature was not understood, till Christ inform'd us of it. In both these Senses, I believe, _Arnobius_ may be taken, _viz._ that there was not only little Talk of _Satan_ and the _Devil_, but less of his Nature apprehended, before _Christ_ by his Parables and parabolical Miracles, rightly interpreted, instructed us in it. And if after Ages have departed from the true and original Doctrine of _Devils_, making a literal Story of that, which is only mystical and cabalistical; and have formed to themselves _Ideas_ of hideous and horrible Fiends, _Mormos_ and _Hobgoblins_, it shall not disturb me. As to the Place and State of _Hell_, many are the Notions of _Divines_ of several Ages past, as well as of the present. I shall not recount them all here, much less refute any of them. But there is an antient, rational, and cabalistical Notion of Hell, which I have learned of the Fathers, who signify, that the babylonish and bewilder'd State of Christ's Church may be call'd _Hell_, because, as the Word [Greek: adês] does import, it is a State _without Vision_. Hence _Origen_ says,[112] that whoever can form to himself an _Idea_ of the Church in time to come, when she will be dignified with the Title of the _New Jerusalem_, for her Peace and Vision may understand what is meant by _Hell_, and all that is written of it.