Hobbes located Satan as the first enemy underlying political threat.

Evidence

If death is “the last enemy”-and for Thomas Hobbes, death is indeed the “most terrible enemy of nature”-the first enemy remains Satan. … It is his work that Hobbes conjures in the letter of dedication to Leviathan to justify his use of the Holy Scriptures. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 348

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to the theology of enmity and to Leviathan’s dedicatory apparatus.