. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . The Doom OF THE Damned. (After Luca Signorelli.) The Gnostic Christian view of Doomsday and Hellembodies many ancient traditions of Egyptian, Indian,and Persian mj-thology and foreshadows at the same timethe later Roman Catholic view as represented in medi-aeval art, finding its poetical consummation in DantesDivina Coinedia. Satan was regarded by the early Christians as the 190 THE HISTORY OF THE The Trinity Ideal of Christianity. (Old German.)Representing God as Emperor, Christ as
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . The Doom OF THE Damned. (After Luca Signorelli.) The Gnostic Christian view of Doomsday and Hellembodies many ancient traditions of Egyptian, Indian,and Persian mj-thology and foreshadows at the same timethe later Roman Catholic view as represented in medi-aeval art, finding its poetical consummation in DantesDivina Coinedia. Satan was regarded by the early Christians as the 190 THE HISTORY OF THE The Trinity Ideal of Christianity. (Old German.)Representing God as Emperor, Christ as King, and the Holy Ghost as theprinciple of light, of order and good government. (Reproduced from Muther.) EARLY CHRISTIANITY. 191 Prince of this World, and this belief douiiiiatcd in theChurch as k)ng as pagan authorities remained in soon as tliey were rephiced l)y Christian rulers, andwhen Christianity became established as the state reli-gion of the Roman Empire, Satan was gradually de-throned and God reinstated in the government of theworld. The empire of the Csesars broke to pieces underthe repeated assaults of Vandals, Huns, and Goths, butCharlemagne founded a new empire on its ruins, which,being based upon the rising power of the Teutonic tribes,the Franconians and the Germans, was called the HolyRoman Empire of German nationality, lasting about athousand years, from 800 until 1806. This period (byStahl actually regarded as the realisation of the millen-nium of Revelation)
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