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ful , or as more properly belongjii < r to the former class ; and others , when compared with the
observations , which have been made , upon them , in the preceding part of this essay > will not be thought to have much weight in the argument . The remaining passages iire , III . Those in which the word Aia / 3 oAO > is used in its primitive sense , . and should be translated accuser , calumniator , or slanderer . John , \ u ' 70 . Did I not choose you twelve , and one of you is an accuser .
Ephes . iv . 27 * Nor g ive any room to the accuser . Ephes . vi . 1 J . Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the devices of the accuser . 1 Tim , iii . 6 . No novice , lest he be puffed up , aijd So fall into blame from the accuser .
1 Tim . iii . 7 . No novice , lest he fall into reproach and a snare of the accuser . 1 Tim . iii . 11 . Their wives also must be respectable , not slanderers .
2 Tim . ii . < 2 , 6 . And they may recover their senses to perform his will , after being rescued alive by the servant of the Lord out of the snare of the accuser . 2 Tim . iii . 3 . Without natural affection , irreconcileable , slanderers , &c .
Titus , ii 3 . That elderly women likewise , behave as bt-cometli saints , be no slanderers , &c . 1 Pet . v . 8 . Be sober , be watchful : for your slanderous adversary , like a roaring lion , is going about , and seeking whom he imxy devour , &c . Rev . ii # 10 . Behojd the accuser
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is going to throw some of you into prison . N . R . The remaining passages
in this book , as they reier to-symbolical characters , need not b& recited * It appears then , that in more than a fourth part of those f ^^ r passages , in which the term Aw&-/ 3 oAof is used in the N . T- it has no reference to any invisible being as the author of evil , instigate in < z and influencing ; the human mind ; but is applied to humanj agents , actuated by bad principles ' and designs ; and this distinct ami * natural sense of the word , justifies the conclusion , that in other * instances it is only \^> od figujg ^ . « tively , as are the words sin , deaifr 7 fl &c . ; or in reference to a
prevalent , but unfounded opinion that , an evil orTailen demon , the ene ~ , my of God and man , had access , to the human mind- and
considerable ascendancy over it- If this notion were supported by other evidence , these passages might be supposed to coincide with it ; but to those who argue with the apostle James , i- 13- u Every man is
tempted when he is drawn aside of his own Jkists and enticed / 7 it will appear more probable , that the notion , which seems to be conveyed by them , was only one of those absurd opinions borrowed
from the Heathen JMvtholojyy . which the scripture writers did not Think it necessary forltially to refute , knowing that if * would never be seriously adopted , by those who c Nil mined u lhe
certainty of those things in which they had been instructed / ' It will also appear , how little foundation ilrere is for the mischievous opinion , that the thoughts and inclinations of men are subject
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On the Existence of the Devih 4 ^ 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 437, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/23/
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