He who has no love in his heart to God, you may set him down for an apostate.
- Thomas Watson
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
- Origen
Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.
- John Milton
It teaches that man is an apostate creature, fallen from his original innocence, degraded in his nature, depraved in his thinking, prone toward evil, not good, and impacted by sin to the very core of his being.