The Phantom World; or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c.. Calmet Augustin

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Rev. xii. 9.

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Bel and the Dragon.

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Wisd. xi. 16.

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Elian. Hist. Animal.

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Numb. xxi. 2 Kings xviii. 4.

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On this subject, see a work of profound learning, and as interesting as profound, on "The Worship of the Serpent," by the Rev. John Bathurst Deane, M. A. F. S. A.

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Aug. tom. viii. pp. 28, 284.

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Ab-racha, pater mali, or pater malus.

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August. de Gen. ad Lit. 1. ii. c. 18.

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Matt. iv. 9, 10, &c.

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Gen. xxxii. 24, 25.

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Sever. Sulpit. Hist. Sac.

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A small city or town of the Electorate of Cologne, situated on a river of the same name.

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There were in all ten letters, the greater part of them Greek, but which formed no (apparent) sense. They were to be seen at Molsheim, in the tablet which bore a representation of this miracle.

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Lib. de Anima.

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1 Pet. iii. 8.

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Eph. vi. 11. 1 Tim. iii. 7.

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Sulpit. Sever. Vit. St. Martin, b. xv.

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2 Cor. xi. 14.

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Job i. 6-8.

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1 Kings xxii. 21.

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Exod. ix. 6.

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Gen. xviii. 13, 14.

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Gen. xxxviii.

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Prov. xvii. 11.

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Rev. ii. 24.

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Vide Bodin Preface.

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Gen. xxxi. 19.

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Josh. xxiv. 2-4.

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Hosea ii. 4, &c. Zech. v. 2.

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Zech. x. 2. Ezek. xxi. 21.

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Gen. xliv. 15.

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Gen. xliv. 5.

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Exod. vii. 10-12. Exod. viii. 19.

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Exod. xxii. 18.

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Numb. xxii., xxiii.

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Judg. xvii. 1, 2.

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Judg. viii. 27.

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2 Kings i. 2, 2.

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1 Sam. xxviii. 7, et seq.

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2 Kings xxi. 16.

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2 Kings xxii. 24.

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Dan. iv. 6, 7.

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Matt. x. 25; xii. 24, 25.

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Luke xi. 15, 18, 19.

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Acts viii. 11; xiii. 6.

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Acts xix. 19.

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Psalm lvii.

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Ecclus. xii. 13.

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Acts xvi. 16, 17.

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Acts xvi. 10.

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Page 31, et seq.

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Capitular. R. xiii de Sortilegiis et Sorciariis, 2 col. 36.

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Capitular. in 872, x. 2. col. 230.

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Eph. vi. 12.

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M. de St. André, Letter VI. on the subject of Magic, &c.

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Apud Syncell.

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Matt. iii. 1, 7, 36.

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Lev. xix. 31; xx.

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Acts viii. 9; xiii. 8.

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Porph. de Abstinent. lib. iv. § 16. Vid. et Ammian. Marcell. lib. xxiii.

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Numb. xxiii. 1-3.

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Diodor. Sicul. lib. i. p. 5.

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Ezek. xxi. 21.

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Homer, Iliad, IV.

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Acts xix. 19.

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Acts viii. 9; xiii. 8.

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Pind. Od. iv.

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Plin. I. 28.

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Cato de Rerustic. c. 160.

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Psalm lvii. Jer. vii. 17. Eccles. x. 11.

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Plin. lib. viii. c. 50.

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Job xl. 25.

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Ecclus. xii. 13.

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Plin. lib. xxviii.

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The fables of Jason and many others of the same class are said by Fortuitus Comes to have a reference to alchemy.

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Aug. de Civit. Dei, lib. xviii. c. 16-18.

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Frederici Hoffman, de Diaboli Potentia in Corpora, p. 382.

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See John Schesser, Laponia, printed at Frankfort in 4to. an. 1673, chap. xi. entitled, De sacris Magicis et Magia Laponia, p. 119, and following.

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Plin. lib. iii. c. 2.

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Philost. Vit. Apollon.

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Lactant. lib. vi. Divin. Instit. c. 13.

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Aug. ad Simplic.

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Tertull. de Animâ, c. 57.

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Lucan. Pharsal. lib. vi. 450, et seq.

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Pietro della Valle, Voyage.

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