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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 52

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r and the scorpion, which can be seen on anAssyrian bas-relief in the British Museum reproduced in Lenormants Histoire An-ctenne de IOrient, V., p. 180. ACCAD AND THE EARLY SEMITES. 33 winged man, Mark h^y a lion, Luke by a steer, andSt. John by an eagle. The creatures represent thecherubim of the… … Wall Decoration of the Royal Palace at Nineveh in their Present State.(After Place, reproduced from Lenormant.) age than even the Old Testament; for we find them onthe walls of the ancient royal palaces of Nineveh, andthere can be no doubt about it that the Jewish conceptionof the cherubim is the…

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