ly bodies;" and PLUTARCH, that "The demons of
the Greeks were the _ghosts_ and _genii_ of departed men." "All Pagan
antiquity affirms," says Dr. CAMPBELL, "that from Titan and Saturn, the
poetic progeny of Coelus and Terra, down to AEsculapius, Proteus, and Minos,
all their _divinities_ were the _ghosts_ of dead men; and were so regarded
by the most erudite of the Pagans themselves."

Among the Pagans, the term _demon_, as often represented a good as an evil
spirit; but among the Jews, it generally, if not universally, denoted an
unclean, malign, or wicked spirit. Thus JOSEPHUS says: "Demons are the
spirits of wicked men." PHILO says that "The souls of dead men are called
demons." "The notion," says Dr. LARDNER, "of demons, or the souls of dead
men, having power over living men, was universally prevalent among the
heathen of these times [the first two centuries], and believed by many
Christians." JUSTIN MARTYR speaks of "those who are seized by the souls of
the dead, whom we call _demons_ and madmen." Ignatius quotes the words of
Christ to Peter thus: "Handle me and see; for I am not a _daimoon
asomaton_,--a disembodied demon,"--_i.e._ a spirit without a body.

The foregoing is evidence of the New Testament signification of the word
_daimoon_, here improperly rendered devils,--spirits of which, the
frog-like agencies are affirmed to be.

Demon worship is a characteristic of the three religions referred to. As
already shown, all Pagans regarded their gods as the ghosts of dead men;
and the Bible speaks of them as devils, _i.e._ _demons_. Moses says of
them, "Even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to
their gods," (Deut. 12:31); while the Psalmist affirms that "they
sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto _devils_," Ps. 106:37.
"They sacrificed unto _devils_, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to
new gods that came newly up," Deut. 32:17. Jeroboam "ordained him priests
for the high places, and for the _devils_," 2 Chron. 11:15. "The things
which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to _devils_, and not to God:
and I would not that ye should have fellowship with _devils_. Ye cannot
drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of _devils_; ye cannot be partakers
of the Lord's table, and of the table of _devils_,"--_i.e._ of _demons_.

Of the same kind are the gods of the heathen now. In the Youth's
Day-Spring, for June, a missionary describing the alarm and grief of the
Africans on the Gaboo