. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. thout reahsing the technical peculiarityand therewith the point of the figure. But runningthroughout all antiquity we find the idea that a mancan be bound or fettered by daemonic occurs in Greek, Syrian, Hebrew, Mandaean, andIndian magic spells.* In Greek we even have a 2 Cor. i. 23, ^ili Si n&prvpa rbv Behv imKoKodiuu M t^v i/iiiv ^vxiv. Uponmy soul or against my soul in case 1 say vyhat is untrue. Dittenberger, Orientis Graeoi Insoriptiones Selectae, No. 53228ff.
. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. thout reahsing the technical peculiarityand therewith the point of the figure. But runningthroughout all antiquity we find the idea that a mancan be bound or fettered by daemonic occurs in Greek, Syrian, Hebrew, Mandaean, andIndian magic spells.* In Greek we even have a 2 Cor. i. 23, ^ili Si n&prvpa rbv Behv imKoKodiuu M t^v i/iiiv ^vxiv. Uponmy soul or against my soul in case 1 say vyhat is untrue. Dittenberger, Orientis Graeoi Insoriptiones Selectae, No. 53228ff., irapCiiMiairr&s re itar ifiov Koi , etc. At the same time a fine analogy to Luthers Leib, Gut, Ehr, Kindund Weib. [ And though they take our life, Groods, honour, children, wife,Yet is their profit small . . in Carlyles version of Ein feste Burg. 140, n. 2 above. Tb.] • 6 Seir/iis t^s yKii(r<Trj%. For what follows cf. Die Christliche Welt, 17(1903) ool. 554 ff. Cf. Mark Lidzbarski, Ephemeris fiir eemitisoJie UpigrapJdk, 1, p. ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 307 detailed magical prescription for binding a man/besides large numbers of inscriptions dealing withthe matter. One of the oldest of these is thefollowing, a leaden tablet from Attica of the firsthalf of the 4th cent. (Fig. 45), which I give hereas read by Adolf Wilhelm ^:— KaTo^ai Kal ovk avaXvcrm AvriKkea ^AvTujtdvoi; kuI Avti- (f>dvr]v TlaTpoKkkof koI ^iXoxXea Kal KXeoxaprivKal ^i\0K\ea Kal XiiiKp(ovihr]v Kal Tifidvdrjv Kal tovto<s * dtravra} irpoi jov Epfirjv tov [tov] yQoviov KoX TOV BoTuOV Kal TOV 5 KdTOXpv KaX TOV ipiovviov Kal ovk dvaKverco, Gods! Good Tyche! I bind down and will not looseAnticles, the son of Antiphanes, and Antiphanes the sonof Patrocles, and Philocles, and Cleochares, and Philocles,and Smicronides, and Timanthes, and Timanthes. I bindthese all down to Hermes, who is beneath the earth andcrafty and fast-holding and luck-bringing, and I will not loose
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