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calves. Upon the whole Mr. Farmer concludes, that the 
authors of the Septuagint verfion muft have known that the 
eathen gods, which were the immediate objects of wor- 
ap p, and which are ey, sae demons, and no 
devils, were deified men; and w e has Gfrercd on this 
head is much confirmed by what occurs in fir Ifaac New- 
ton’s rae gy, p» 16 
Int ew ‘I'clta ae “allo the Heathen deities are cail- 
ed demons 3 though the Englifh tranflation tends to mif- 
lead the reader by the ufe of the word devils inftead of de- 
Hae which the original imports ; and hence, as weilas from 
me other collateral confiderations, it has been inferred, 
cae the Heathen deities were f{pirits of an order fuperior to 
that of the human race, and alfo tha . ae ot to the 
clafs of wicked {piri Thus we r or. 21. 
“that the things which the Gentiles Getic iy one 
I wou 
word hére rendered devils is Jaimoun, or demons ; but allow 
ae this to be the cafe, it has been eeu that the word 
demon being ufed inan ill fenfe, the de 
to were apofate angels, On the other faa 
others are of opinion, that aie might hav 
a good fenfe; and it has been fu uppoted ah the apolile i Is 
defcribing, i in this paflage, ihe objet oe worfhip, and 
ae of the notion which the Heathens in general had 
f them; thus ‘ they facrifice to denen thatis, to fpirits 2 
ion they regard as real deities. But it has been faid, that 
if thefe demons were evil {pirits, they might neverthelefs 
have sae ed jetfied men women. w immoral were 
s, and how licentious was the ae ee of thofe 
2.) To el it 
is faid, ree may be a reference in 2 vi. 14~—16; par~ 
ticularly in the exprcffion, “ we concord hath Chritt with 
Belial 2”? e Heathen demons might be called Behal, 
either becant S ry were of no ule (deducing it from 55, 
nibil, and 9, which in Hiph:l denotes prodeff2, or 
becaule fo hes wickednefs entered into the idea\which the 
St. Paul, it Is alleged, was not 
Tee 
ay, it is f; 
by this hee expre gods taken 
Aft arene to the ean concerning the returrec- 
tion and glory of Jefus Chritt, 7 reprefented him as ‘a fet- 
ter forth of ttrange dzmons or - eee 18, 22.) 
which, as our tranflators have intimated, co 
calls them dacidasnovercpac, or very 
e fhould brand them as worfhippers of devils 5 
kind not being true, nor hkely to be 
araaee eee ae the pga in that fen‘e. In another paf- 
1 Tim. St. Paul, pie the apottacy o 
ie et ae Chidttiane from t e purity of the original 
faith, —— among feveral other inftances, this very re- 
markable one, ** their iviog heed to doétrines” (not o 
devils but) “ oleate demons.” Here the apoftle evi- 
M ON, . 
dently refers to - worfhip of Saints ‘aban - a 
— ; as bifhop Warburton allows Pp. 
ugh not ee perfect conliftency with eat a 
oan vol, il. p, Jo.) © that the facred writers never 
angels.” he meaning of the apoltle may be inferred from 
this paflage, which thews that by the word demons he did 
not mean devils, but beatified or deifed human pirits, 
The apoftle James fays (ch. ii. 19.), “ The devils’’ (in 
the original, the demons) “ believe aid tremble.” er 
fays Dr. Campbell, the ane means the fpirits of wicked 
men deceafed ; and he further cbferves, ee in this epiitle, 
the epith et — ovuwons 18 accordnis gly u 
(ch. ui. 15. +) where that aes a produceth eavy 
and contention is ityled earthly, fenfual, devilith 
nianw Mr Farmer fuggetts, that this paffag eof St. James 
is taken from one in the book of Job (xxvi. 5.), the words 
of which he — “the giants tremble under the wa 
igether with their holt or fellow-in- 
he fays, fometimes figni- 
fies the ghofts of the dead in Sage A 
Pi. Ieee. TOs 
Ef. xxvi. 14.) In other pailuyes it feems to denote the 
hofts of wicked men in particular, who are ina ftate of 
perdition ; and a yee perhaps, thofe of the giants 
who perifhed e flood, ae - who, like them, “filled 
the earth with violence and terror. (Prov. ii. 18. ix. 18, 
9: Rephain Lag! fignifies giants in 
Ti. 20. 11. 11. Jofh. xv. 8 
22% cre n. xx. 4. 6. 8 
pafag e cited fom Job, it is explained concerning giants, 
that is, their ghofts in the Cus Paraphrafe, the Sep- 
tuagint, the Latin Vulgate, ian many inode oS 
In the phrafe “¢ under the waters,’? Mr. P oe 
Job, p. 359.) and others, Fuppole that it aan a ne 
aes or which the giants were overwhelmed i the: 
flood. ee Mede Difc. on this tex t,; Works, p. 31. 
his paola “under t * anfwers to the towel 
hell, or fheol, in Deut. 
pee is alee to wicked fouls. mo Peters on Job, 
. Windet, de Vite Fundoru atu, p. 204. 243.) 
Accordingly, Mr. Farmer spared that the ‘demons of 
. James antwer to thofe de parted fouls in Job, whether 
you underftand thereby the ghotts of the uae din alee 
or thofe of the antediluvian giants in particular. Fro 
this paflage - a that by demons in the New Tella. 
ment times to underftand the ghofts of dead 
is 
ofes it 
ad 
uar.. 
of departed ee and fenfelets idols, not of 
this word is now underftood. In th fequel of 
the revelation of St. om _ a prophetic vilion of 
which is re- 
of the deceit and fraud pradiifed on 
{pirit of demons, in fupporting their a to a miraculous 
nother paflage occurs in the book of Revela- 
a - in which the utter defolation of Ba- 
d: “* Jt is become the habitation of de- 
mo ert ; demons or evil {pirits being fuppofed 
to oe aco places, (compare the cia verfion of 
. xi, 213 and fee Vitringa on Rev. xvii. 2.) 
s we have enumerated are the eer on which 
Seren: not directly air to poflefions, occur in the 
New 
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