le horn" (Dan. 7:8), makes it evident that a "mouth" is a
symbol of an ecclesiastical organization existing in a political one,--that
it symbolizes the agency by which the people are taught, and is
representative of ecclesiastics, who are the mouthpiece of the nation in
all matters of faith and worship, p. 172.

The religion of Rome imperial, when symbolized by the dragon, was
Paganism; that of the ten kingdoms, was the Papacy; and that of the
eastern empire, is Mohammedanism. From these three, then, emerge the
"unclean spirits." Diverse as their origin appears, they have no marked
individual peculiarities. Being alike in their characteristics, they must
symbolize some common agency:--a combination of religious teachers, whose
views harmonize in a system of belief common to Paganism, Catholicism, and
Mohammedanism.

The character of these teachers, is shown by the declaration that "they
are the spirits of _devils_ working miracles."

There are two words rendered devils in the New Testament, viz.: {~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}
(_daimonion_) or {~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} (_daimoon_), and {~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} (_diabolus_). The latter
signifies the Devil, or Satan, who is the same as Beelzebub the prince of
the _demons_, Matt. 12:25. He it was by whom Jesus was tempted in the
wilderness, (Matt. 4:1-11); who sowed the tares in the field, (Matt,
13:39); and for whom, with his angels, the final punishment for the wicked
is prepared, Matt. 25:41.

The word here, is _daimoon_. It is used, in different forms, sixty-five
times by our Lord and his apostles; and on no occasion do they hint that
they use the word in a sense different from its then accepted
signification; to learn which, recourse must be had to the testimony of
the Pagan, Jewish, and Christian writers of those times.(6)

HESIOD taught that, "The spirits of departed mortals become _demons_ when
separated from their earth