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In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils. The New International Version translates the passage as: But the Pharisees said, "It is by the prince of demons that he drives out demons."
[1] [2] Lapide relates the following story based on this passage: "An aged priest, worthy of credit, who had discharged the office of exorcist for many years and expelled devils at Rome, once told me he had seen with his eyes, and heard with his ears, two men possessed with devils, contending and fighting with one another, in the Church of S ...
A Digimon named Belphemon, from the Digimon franchise is a member of the Seven Great Demon Lords and appears in the fifth season Digimon Data Squad. Void Stranger contains a number of characters with abbreviated demon names, including Gor, whose full name is Belphegor. Belphegor is mentioned by Beelzebub in episode 8, season 1 in Helluva Boss ...
The incarnation of the demons has been a problem in Christian demonology and theology since early times. A very early form of the incarnation of demons was the idea of demonic possession, trying to explain that a demon entered the body of a person with some purpose or simply to punish that one for some allegedly committed sin.
John 13:2 [71] states that the devil entered Judas Iscariot before Judas' betrayal (Luke 22:3). [72] [73] In all three synoptic gospels (Matthew 9:22–29, [74] Mark 3:22–30 [75] and Luke 11:14–20), [76] Jesus' critics accuse him of gaining his power to cast out demons from Beelzebub, the devil. In response, Jesus says that a house divided ...
Jesus drives out a demon or unclean spirit, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures. In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering [1] of Greek pneuma akatharton (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural pneumata akatharta (πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα)), which in its single occurrence in the Septuagint translates Hebrew ruaḥ tum'ah (רוּחַ ...
In contrast, the Methodist publication The Interpreter's Bible states, "Abaddon, however, is an angel not of Satan but of God, performing his work of destruction at God's bidding", citing the context at Revelation chapter 20, verses 1 through 3. [13] [page needed] Jehovah's Witnesses also cite Revelation 20:1-3 where the angel having "the key ...
The Testament of Solomon is a pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which the author mostly describes particular demons who he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwarted, and their answers, which provide a kind of self-help manual against demonic activity.