. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . War in the Revelation of St. Jofin. (By Albrecht Diirer.; 202 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. Harshly he thundered, and heavily and terribly the earth re-echoedaround. Beneath Joves immortal feet vast Olympus trembled,and the earth groaned. Heaven and sea were boiling. Pluto trem-bled, monarch of the dead. The Titans in Tartarus trembled also,but Jove smote T^phoeus and scorched all the wondrous heads ofthe terrible monster. When at last the monster was quelled, smit-ten with blows, it fell dow
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . War in the Revelation of St. Jofin. (By Albrecht Diirer.; 202 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. Harshly he thundered, and heavily and terribly the earth re-echoedaround. Beneath Joves immortal feet vast Olympus trembled,and the earth groaned. Heaven and sea were boiling. Pluto trem-bled, monarch of the dead. The Titans in Tartarus trembled also,but Jove smote T^phoeus and scorched all the wondrous heads ofthe terrible monster. When at last the monster was quelled, smit-ten with blows, it fell down lame, and Zeus hurled him into OF Akezzo. The monster slain by Bellerophon. (Now at Florence.) This description reminds us not onU of the SecondEpistle of St. Peter, but also of Revelation, xii. 7-9: And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels foughtagainst the dragon ; and the dragon fought and his angels ; andprevailed not; neither was their place found any more in the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called theDevil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world ; he was castout into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. GREECE AND ITALY, 203 Thus the old Greek demons merely changed namesand reappeared in new personalities. In this shape theywere embodied into the canonical books of the New Tes-tament and became the integral part of tlie new religion,which at that time began to conquer the world.
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