Motif
The motif of the fall of Satan and his angels can be found in both Jewish and Christian angelology and Christian art, and the concept of fallen angels, who for rebelling against God were degraded and condemned to a life of mischief or shame on earth or in a place of punishment, is widespread.
As a result of linking this motif with the cited passage of the Book of Revelation the casting of Satan down from heaven, which other versions of the motif present as an action of God himself, has become attributed to the Archangel Michael at the conclusion of a war between two groups of angels, of whom, because of the mention of the dragon's tail casting a third of the stars of heaven to the earth, one third are supposed to have been on the side of Satan, in spite of the fact that the casting down of the stars (Revelation 12:4) is recounted as occurring before the start of the "war in heaven" (Revelation 12:7).
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