The history of the devil and the idea of evil : from the earliest times to the present day (1900)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 160
of giving knowledge or gnosis to man,appeared to them as a messenger of the true and goodGod. This God of goodness, they declared, was unlikeYahveh free of passions and full of love and mercy. Hewas, as Irenseus informs us, triune, being at once theFather, the Son, and the Spirit. The Father is the… … The Christian Trinity, God Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.(Old German School. Reproduced from Muther.) Similar ideas concerning the triune Godhead and thesalvation from evil are reported of other sects and espe-cially of Simon Magus who is mentioned in the Acts ashaving been baptised by St. Peter and…
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