The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day (1899)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co.; London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner · leaf 496
t a similar parallel-ism obtains between God-representations and Devil-representations. The idea ofrepresenting the divine trinity as a person having threefaces may have originated in a modification of the two-headed Janus. Professor Kraus says concerning the trinitarian de-mons of Christianity :… … Hercules with Cerberus.*From a vase found in Alta mura. 478 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. Nicodemiis, and in the Good Friday Sermon of Eusebius of Alexan-dria, who addresses the Devil Three-headed Beelzebul {jpiKk^aXf.BeeK^ePovX.). The idea of the Demon as a serpent with the head ofa woman appears not…
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