e work of evil spirits, or as punishments inflicted upon men by the immediate decree of an offended God. But the main tendency of Jewish thought, in the time'of Christ, was to attribute diseases to the machinations of the powers of evil. At the head of this malignant host stood Satan, the prince of…
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e work of evil spirits, or as punishments inflicted upon men by the immediate decree of an offended God. But the main tendency of Jewish thought, in the time'of Christ, was to attribute diseases to the machinations of the powers of evil. At the head of this malignant host stood Satan, the prince of the world, and he was surrounded by a multitude of inferior spirits. Many of these demons were believed to be the souls of the dead who roamed through the air, haunting tombs and desert places, in a disembodied form. The ghosts of the giants who lived in antediluvian times, the ghosts of the builders of the tower of Babel, and the.
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