42 Rom. viii. 28, R.V. Marg.

43 1 Cor. xv. 31.

44 Phil. iii. 13; Gen. xix. 26; Luke ix. 62.

45 Luke xvii. 21 (from memory).

46 Josh. xxiv. 23.

47 Matt. iii. 3.

48 James i. 20 andJames i. 15.

49 Prov. iv. 23.

50 Eph. vi. 12.

51 This is not quite the view of Athanasius himself, who regards the air as cleared of evil spirits by the Death of Christ, de Incar. xxv. 5: but Athan. does not mean that their power over the wicked is done away; nor does Antony ascribe to them any power over the Christian, see §§24, 28, 41.

52 2 Cor. ii. 11.

53 See above, §13.

54 Job xli. 18, Job xli. 19, Job xli. 20 (vv. 9-11, LXX.), see above §5, note 15.

55 Job xli. 27sq.

56 Exod. xv. 9.

57 Isai. x.14, cf. Ep Aeg. 2.

58 Job xli. 1.

59 Ibid. Job xli. 2. Cf. Job xl. 19-24.

60 Habak. ii. 15. LXX.

61 Luke iv. 41.

62 etera anq' eterwn, as in de Incar. 11. 4.

63 Ps. 50. 16, Ep Aeg.3.

64 Ps. xxxix. 2.

65 Ps. xxxviii. 14.

66 Cf.de Incar. 47, 48.

67 John viii. 44.

68 Ecclesiasticus i. 25.

69 2 Kings xix. 35.

70 Job i. Job ii.

71 Matt. viii. 31.

72 Cf. de Incar. 3. 3, and passim.

73 Luke x. 19.

74 This materialistic view of demons may be paralleled from Origen and other fathers (D.C.B. i. 809), but is not Athanasian. But it would be congenial to the Coptic mind; compare the story told by Cassian of the Monk Serapion, who, on being convinced that `God is a Spirit,' cried out, `You have taken my God from me' (and see D.C.B. 1. p. 120).

75 Susann. 42.

76 2 Sam. xviii. 24.

77 De Incar. 47.

78 Compare below, §§59, 62, for examples. This quite goes beyond any teaching of Athanasius himself; at the same time it finds a point of contact in what he says about dreams in c. Gent. 30 (manteuomenoj kai progignwskwn), and about the soul's capacity for objective thought, ib. 33, de Incar. 17. 3.

79 2 Kings v. 26.

80 2 Kings vi. 17.

81 Col. ii. 15.

82 Matt. xii. 19, cf. Isai. xlii. 2.

83 Luke i. 13.

84 Matt. xxviii. 5.

85 John viii. 56.

86 Luke i. 41.

87 qeotokoj, as in Orat. iii. 14 (where see note 3).

88 Matt. iv. 10.

89 Luke x. 20.

90 Matt. vii. 22.

91 1 John iv. 1.

92 Ps. xx. 7.

93 Ps. xxxviii. 14.

94 monasthrion.

95 See D.C.A. p. 652.

96 Rom. viii. 35.

97 Luke x. 18.

98 1 Cor. iv. 6.

99 Ps. ix. 6.

100 `An important psychological observation.' (Schaff. Ch. Hist.)

101 Josh. v. 13.

102 Susann. 51-59.

103 LXX. `gardens.'

104 Num. xxiv. 5, Num. xxiv. 6.

105 Matt. vi. 31; Luke xii. 29.

106 a.d. 303-311.

107 Martyred on Nov. 25, 311, cf. Eus. H.E. vii. 32.

108 Luke xi. 9

109 See on this subject `Phantasms of the Living,' vol. 1, p. 480 sq (Trübner, 1886).

110 In Lower Egypt.

111 Mount Colzim, seven hours distant from the Red Sea, where an old cloister still preserves his name and memory (Schaff, Ch. Hist. Nic, p. 183).


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