Then Trypho, waxing somewhat wroth, as was plain from his countenance (though retaining his respect for Scripture), said unto me: God’s statements indeed are holy, but your explanations are artificial, as is clear from those you have given, or, rather, are even blasphemous. For you say that angels have acted maliciously and have fallen away from God.
I answered him in a more gentle tone, for I desired to make him prepared to listen to me, and said: I admire, Sir, this your piety, and I pray that you may have the same attitude also concerning Him to whom the angels are stated in Scripture to minister, as Daniel says, that one as a Son of man is led unto the Ancient of days, and to Him is given all rule for ever and ever. But to teach you, Sir, that it is not our own foolhardiness that has led us to this interpretation with which you find fault, I will adduce testimony for you from Isaiah himself, for he says that evil angels have dwelt and still dwell even in Tanis in the land of Egypt.
These are his words: Woe! ye apostate children! Thus saith the Lord: Ye took counsel not by Me, and made agreements not by My spirit, to add sins to sins. Ye who take your journey to go down into Egypt — but ye did not make enquiry of Me — to be helped by Pharaoh and to be sheltered with the shelter of Egyptians. For the shelter of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and to them that trust on the Egyptians (shall be) a reproach, for there are in Tanis as rulers evil angels. In vain will they toil laboriously towards a people, which will not profit them unto any help, but unto shame and reproach.Isaiah 30:1-5
But Zechariah also says, as you yourself mentioned, that the devil stood on the right hand of Jeshua the priest, to oppose him, and that (the Lord) said: The Lord rebuke thee, who chose Jerusalem. And again it is written in Job, as you yourself also said that the angels came to stand before the Lord, and the devil had come with them. And we have the serpent described by Moses in the beginning of Genesis as deceiving Eve and being cursed.Genesis 3:1-6 Genesis 3:14 And we know that in Egypt magicians tried to equal the miracle that was wrought by God through Moses His faithful attendant. And you are aware that David said: the gods of the heathen are demons.