Scarlet Letter D.J. # 18 - Chapter 9: Part 2.

"His first entry on the scene, few people could tell whence, dropping down, as it were, out of the sky, or starting from the nether earth, had an aspect of mystery, which was easily heightened to the miraculous" (pg. 106 2nd paragraph) If you were to fall from heaven, that is like what happened to Lucifer (the devil), but to arise from the ground you would be coming from hell. Every one in the town is thinking that he is a good person because he is a skilled doctor, so they are not asking to many question of his origin. His medicine is from nature which in unlike the normal puritan medicine, but he knows what he is doing so again, they do not ask questions. It is obvious to a reader, but not to the towns people that he is evil.