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| Of the Kind of Knowledge Which Puffs Up the Demons.
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Chapter 20.—Of the Kind of
Knowledge Which Puffs Up the Demons.
However, the very origin of the
name suggests something worthy of consideration, if we compare it
with the divine books. They are called demons from a Greek word
meaning knowledge.358
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δαίμων=δαήμων, knowing;
so Plato, Cratylus, 398. B. | Now the apostle, speaking with
the Holy Spirit, says, “Knowledge puffeth up, but charity
buildeth up.”359
And
this
can only be understood as meaning that without charity
knowledge does no good, but inflates a man or magnifies him with an
empty windiness. The demons, then, have knowledge without
charity, and are thereby so inflated or proud, that they crave
those divine honors and religious services which they know to be
due to the true God, and still, as far as they can, exact these
from all over whom they have influence. Against this pride of the
demons, under which the human race was held subject as its merited
punishment, there was exerted the mighty influence of the humility
of God, who appeared in the form of a servant; but men, resembling
the demons in pride, but not in knowledge, and being puffed up with
uncleanness, failed to recognize Him.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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