I. The rule in the investigation of truth. Successful application in natural science. Why should not equal success attend its application to other truths? The method
for establishing uniformity of opinion. The rule applied in the investigation of the Devil. The Book of creation affords no
knowledge of the Devil. The importance of a knowledge of the Devil. Great number of passages where the word "devil" occurs
in the Common Version, in which it is not in the original. No two words can mean the same thing. The true meaning of the word
diabolos. Proofs from the Common Version of this meaning. The substitution of the true meaning for the untrue much more useful
and instructive.
II. Man possesses a three-fold nature. The opposition between the institutions of society and the commands of Christ. Submission
of self. Means to obtain this submission. False-accusation state of mind. Passages illustrative. Parable of the tares. Parable
of the sower of the seed. The misintroduction of the Devil into the Old Testament.
III. The term "Satan." Who Satan is must be learned from revelation (i.e. the Bible). Satan applied
to express "adversary." No badness of meaning essentially connected with the word satan The satan
in the Book of Job an idolator. Peter, the apostle, a "satan."
IV. "Satan" indicates any state or condition adverse. Adverse to health - adverse in circumstances-adverse in state of mind. The "Satan" in the Revelations.
V. Jesus is never said, in the original Scriptures, to have cast out "devils." God, the author of language, must know its right use. The universal extension of the Greek
language. 'Daimon' as understood by the Greeks, the Romans, the Jews - a "departed human 'spirit'." Natural
gods of the heathens. The Cerriti and the Larvati. 'BeeIzebub'. Paul's speech at Athens. Demons
believe. The worship of demons. Paul's answer to the expediency, sham charity men of his day.
VI. Possessions indicated by certain signs. Madness an indication. The Pythia. Unusually bodily contortions. The Gadarene and Gergesene demoniacs were madmen. Lunatics.
Epileptics.
VII. The Gadarene and Gergesene demoniacs. Their dispossession, and the madness of the swine examined and explained. The language of our Saviour and of his apostles
corresponds to the opinions of men. How the demonians confessed Christ.
VIII. Temptation, its nature. Trial. The source of temptation. Erroneousness of many notions on this subject.
IX. The source of temptation. The lust (‘epithumia’). The misapplication of the word. The steps
in the production of a sin. Desire, its nature. Numerous passages in which 'epithumia' is applied
to a desire, decidedly good.
X. The history of the temptation (trial) of our Lord. The rule to guide as to a passage of Scripture being interpreted literally or figuratively.
This rule applied to the three temptations of Christ, and the impossibility of the account being literally true.
XL The peculiar work which Christ had to perform. The character, his humanity, in which he had to perform that work. The difference between
the first Adam and the second Adam (the Lord Jesus). The trials of the Lord shown to be mere mental states through which his
mind passed.
XII. The atheism of believing in a being called the Devil. The absurdity of such belief. The obstacles to the removal of the belief in such a being.
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