 The most infamous of Epps' unorthodox views regards the devil (1842).He was one of a long line of Dissenters to take this view, stretching back through Simpson (1804), Lardner (1742), Sykes (1737), going back to the Dutch Anabaptist, David Joris (1540).According to Epps, references in the Bible to the devil and Satan are, in the main, to be understood as personifications of the lustful principle in humans.