Demonology and devil-lore . Arch-bishops of Rouen and Auxerre, and the Bishop of Bay-onne, and represented their opinion and the common beliefof the time. But Joachim said the Second ApocalypticBeast represented some great prelate who will be likeSimon Magus, and, as it were, universal Pontiff, and thatvery Antichrist of whom speaks. Hildebrandwas the first Pope to whomthis ugly label was affixed,but the career of AlexanderVI. (Roderic Borgia) madeit for ever irremovable forthe Protestant mind. Thereis in the British Museum avolume of caricatures, dated1545, in which occurs aningenious
Demonology and devil-lore . Arch-bishops of Rouen and Auxerre, and the Bishop of Bay-onne, and represented their opinion and the common beliefof the time. But Joachim said the Second ApocalypticBeast represented some great prelate who will be likeSimon Magus, and, as it were, universal Pontiff, and thatvery Antichrist of whom speaks. Hildebrandwas the first Pope to whomthis ugly label was affixed,but the career of AlexanderVI. (Roderic Borgia) madeit for ever irremovable forthe Protestant mind. Thereis in the British Museum avolume of caricatures, dated1545, in which occurs aningenious representation ofAlexander VI. The Popeis first seen in his ceremonialrobes; buta leaf being raised,another figure is joined tothe lower part of the former,and there appears the papaldevil, the cross in his handbeing changed to a pitchfork (Fig. 11). Attached to itis an explanation in German giving the legend of thePopes death. He was poisoned (1503) by the cup he hadprepared for another man. It was afterwards said that he. Fig. II.—Alexander VI. as Antichrist. 256 LUTHER AS ANTICHRIST. had secured the papacy by aid of the Devil. Having askedhow long he would reign, the Devil returned an equivocalanswer ; and though Alexander understood that it was tobe fifteen years, it proved to be only eleven. When in1520 Pope Leo X. issued his formal bull against Luther,the reformer termed it the execrable bull of Italian poem of the time having represented Luther as the offspring of Megaera,the Germans returned theinvective in a form mor^likely to impress the popularmind ; namely, in a caricature(Fig. 12), representing thesaid Fury as nursing theg^ Pope. This caricature is alsoof date 154s, and with it wereothers showing Alecto andTisiphone acting in other ca- Fig. 12.—The Pope NursED by Megjera. ... pacities for the papal babe. The Lutherans had made the discovery that thenumber of the Apocalyptic Beast, 666, put into Hebrewnumeral letters, contained the words Aberin Ka
Size: 1213px × 2060px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentu, bookdecade1870, booksubjectdemonology, popealexandervi
