Their first estate; or, as in the margin, their principality; which seems to denote the rank and office assigned to them by their Creator among the heavenly hosts.

Left their own habitation; became discontented with their condition, and refused to do the will of God, in the place assigned to them 2 Peter 2:4. We know nothing further concerning their fall than the brief hints of Scripture, and all speculation on the subject is vain.

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