. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . om fClassisc!ie>- Skulftiu-oisc/iatz.) Hell is described in the following words: And I saw another place right opposite, rough and being theplace of punishment. And those who are punished there and thepunishing angels had their robes dark ; as the color of the air ofthe place is also dark: and some people were hung up by theirtongues : they were those who had blasphemed the path of right-eousness ; and underneath them a bright baneful fire was lit. And EARLY CHRISTIANITY. ISl there was a pit large
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . om fClassisc!ie>- Skulftiu-oisc/iatz.) Hell is described in the following words: And I saw another place right opposite, rough and being theplace of punishment. And those who are punished there and thepunishing angels had their robes dark ; as the color of the air ofthe place is also dark: and some people were hung up by theirtongues : they were those who had blasphemed the path of right-eousness ; and underneath them a bright baneful fire was lit. And EARLY CHRISTIANITY. ISl there was a pit large and filled with burning dirt {fiop/iopo^), inwhich several people stuck who had perverted justice, and theavenging angels assaulted them. There were others there ; womenhung up by their braids above the seething dirt. Tliey were thosewho had adorned themselves for adultery ; but those who had soiledthemselves with the miasma of the adultery of those women werehung up by their feet and had their heads in the dirt, and I said,I did not believe that I should enter into this place. I saw mur-. Christian Representation of Hell,Sculptures on the main entrance of the Cathedral at Bourges. France. Four-teenth century. (Reproduced from A/nssisc/icr Skulpli!schaU.) derers and their accomplices thrown into a narrow place filled withevil vermin and tormented by those animals and sqiiirming underthis punishment. Worms like dark clouds assaulted them. Thesouls of the murdered people, however, stood b) and gazed at thepunishment of their murderers and said: O God, just is thy judg-ment. But near unto that place I saw a place of torment in whichthe blood and the stench of the punished flowed down so as to 182 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. make a pool, and there were women to whom the blood reachedup to the neck ; opposite them many infants sat who had beenbrought into the world before their season, and they were fiery rays proceeded from the children and bit the eyes of thewomen. For t
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