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 498
ofessor Kraus continues: Simultaneously with the conception of the Devil as a dragonare found in the Acts of the Martyrs notions of him as an awfulnegro (a Moor or Ethiopian). The same views are found in Au-gustine, Gregory the Great, and the Apocryphal Acts of St. Bar-tholomew. In the latter, the… … St. Anthony Assaulted bv Devils.(After Schoengauers copper engraving, 1420-1499.) ing eyes, fire in his mouth, smoke issuing from his nostrils, andwith the wings of a bat. We see that this pleasant description of 480 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. the Evil One, which perhaps is based on Job xli. 9 et…
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