myth is
uncertain.

[1167] 1 Kings xxii, 19-23.

[1168] Ed. Meyer, _Geschichte des Alten Aegyptens_, p. 71
f.; Maspero, _Dawn of Civilization_, pp. 172, 177.

[1169] R. Taylor, _New Zealand_, pp. 114 ff., 132; Jean A.
Owen, _The Story of Hawaii_, p. 70 f.

[1170] Mills, in _Journal of the American Oriental Society_,
xx, 31 ff.; Bloomfield, _Religion of the Veda_, p. 123 ff.

[1171] Spiegel, _Eranische Alterthumskunde_, ii, 21 ff., 121
ff.

[1172] Zech. iii, 1-3; Job i, ii.

[1173] 1 Chr. xxi, 1.

[1174] 2 Cor. iv, 4.

[1175] The Greek _daimon_, properly simply a deity, received
its opprobrious sense when Jews and Christians identified
foreign deities with the enemies of the supreme God.

[1176] Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, ii, 318 ff.

[1177] Great gods also send suffering, but only when they
are angered by men's acts, as by disrespect to a priest
(Apollo, in _Iliad_, i) or to a sacred thing (Yahweh, 1 Sam.
vi, 19; 2 Sam. vi, 7). In the high spiritual religions
suffering is treated as educative, or is accepted as
involving some good purpose unknown to men.

[1178] W. R. Smith, _Religion of the Semites_, 2d ed., p.
126 f.

[1179] Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, p. 260
ff.; O. Weber, _Daemonenbeschwoerung bei den Babyloniern und
Assyriern_ (in _Der Alte Orient_, 1906).

[1180] The Ethiopic Book of Enoch (ed. R. H. Charles),
chaps. liii, vi-x; the Slavonic Enoch, or Secrets of Enoch
(ed. R. H. Charles), chap. xxxi. For the later Jewish view
(in Talmud and Midrash) see _Jewish Encyclopedia_, article
"Satan."

[1181] The "demons" of 1 Cor. x, 20 (King James version,
"devils") are foreign deities.

[1182] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, pp. 416, 492 ff.

[1183] Herzog-Hauck, _Real-Encyklopaedie_, articles
"Ophiten," "Kainiten."

[1184] J. Menant, _Les Yesidis_ (in _Annales du Musee
Guimet_); Isya Joseph, _Yesidi Texts_ (reprinted from
_American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures_, xxv
(1909), no. 2 f.). Cf. the idea of restoration in Col. i,
20.

[1185] So the Christian Satan.

[1186] When, in the reports of travelers and other
observers, demons are said to be placated, examination shows
that these beings are gods who happen to be mischievous. Of
this character, for example, appear to be the "demons"
mentioned in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and
Ethics_, ii, 122.