3. The third thing that the Bible teaches us as to the Nature of the Devil is that, _the Devil is a being of great majesty and dignity of position_. Turn to Jude 8, 9: +"Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities+ (the literal translation of the Greek word rendered dignities is "_glories_"). +(9) But Michael the Archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee."+ From these words it is evident that _the position of the Devil was so exalted that even Michael the archangel did not dare to bring a railing judgment against him_. The context seems to imply that the position of the Devil was more exalted than that of Michael the archangel himself. The Devil of the Bible is not at all the Devil of common thought. He is not a being hideous in appearance, with hoofs and horns and tail. He is not even the being pictured by Milton or Bunyan. He is a being of very great original majesty and dignity, a being of great wisdom and power. When people talk lightly and contemptuously about the Devil they display gross ignorance of what the Bible teaches about him. It is true that he is evil in character and therefore called "The Evil One" (John 5:19, R. V.). It is true he is a liar and a murderer (John 8:44), it is true that he is full of malignity (II Cor. 4:4): but he is a being of great dignity and majesty, so that even Michael the archangel durst not bring against him a railing accusation. 4. The Bible teaches furthermore that _the Devil is "the prince of this world."_ Our Lord Jesus Himself taught this. He says in John 12:31: +"Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out."+ The Greek word translated "world" in this passage is _kosmos_, and the thought is of the present world order, and our Lord's teaching is that the Devil is the prince of this present world order. We have the same teaching of our Lord in John 14:30, where we read: +"I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me."+ These words of our Lord are found in what many regard as the most precious chapter in the Bible, the 14th chapter of John, and if we give up this teaching of our Lord regarding Satan we must give up, not merely the Bible as a whole, but this most precious chapter in the Bible. We find the Lord teaching the same thing again on that same night, the night before His crucifixion, in John 16:11 where he says: +"The prince of this world is judged"+—the evident reference being to Satan.