Todd Lecture Series Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...by his magical arts, and sent them to James, saying: --" Go ye to James and my pupil Filetus, and bring them before me, so that I may fight with them, lest they carry off my disciples and deceive them." So the demons came to seek James, whom they found in prayer; and they said to him, as they hovered in the air above him in loud lamentation: --" 0 apostle of God, save us from damnation before our time, for we are already in pain." "Why have ye come hither?" asked James. "Hermogenes sent us to bring thee and Filetus before him; but when we reached this place, the Lord's angels bound us with chains of fire, which are burning us." So James bade the angels free them, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and then sent them to bring Hermogenea: "Only," said he, " do him no harm, but harass him with delirium." Then the demons went to Hermogenes, and said to him: --" Why didst thou send us to meet pain and torture at the hands of James?" and they bound his hands behind his back, and carried him off to James, who thus addressed him: --"0 fierce and ignorant man, why hast thou associated with the enemy of mankind? and why is it that thou seest not how, even in spite of themselves, at my command are the servants of him whom thou didst beg to send them to take vengeance on me? But I did not let them injure tliee." "Give us leave," begged the demons of James, "to take vengeance on Hermogenes for the injury done to tliee and to us, in all that we? have suffered on his account." James asked them: --" Why did ye not inflict evil on Filetus, who is in your presence?" "We cannot do evil to one who is under thy protection," said the...