The Grecians, by their colonies and conquests, communicated their language and writings into Asia, Egypt, and Italy; and therein, by necessary consequence their “demonology,” or, as St. Paul calls it (1 Tim. 4:1), “their doctrines of devils.” And by that means the contagion was derived also to the Jews, both of Judea and Alexandria, and other parts, whereinto they were dispersed. But the name of “demon” they did not, as the Grecians, attribute to spirits both good and evil; but to the evil only: and to the good “demons” they gave the name of the spirit of God; and esteemed those into whose bodies they entered to be prophets. In sum, all singularity, if good, they attributed to the spirit of God; and if evil, to some “demon,” but a κακοδάιμων