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Brewer's: Aut Cæsar aut nullus

[Latin, Either Cæsar or no one ], everything or nothing; all or not at all. Cæsar used to say, “he would sooner be first in a village than second at Rome.” Milton makes Satan say, “Better…

Brewer's: Merlin

Prince of Enchanters; also the name of a romance. He was the son of a damsel seduced by a fiend, but Blaise baptised the infant, and so rescued it from the power of Satan. He died spell-…

Brewer's: Millennium

means simply a thousand years. (Latin, mille annus.) In Rev. xx. 2 it is said that an angel bound Satan a thousand years, and in verse 4 we are told of certain martyrs who will come to…

Brewer's: Flatterers

When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. Flattery is so pernicious, so fills the heart with pride and conceit, so perverts the judgment and disturbs the balance of the mind, that…

Brewer's: Abdiel

Ab′diel The faithful seraph who withstood Satan when he urged the angels to revolt. (See Paradise Lost, Bk. v., lines 896, etc.) “[He] adheres, with the faith of Abdiel, to the ancient…

Brewer's: Ithuriel

One of the angels commissioned by Gabriel to search for Satan, who had effected his entrance into Paradise. The other angel who accompanied him was Zephon (Ithuriel means “the discovery of…

The Koran/Sura LXXIX — Those Who Drag Forth

Sura LXXIX[93] — Those Who Drag ForthMecca — 46 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful By those angels who DRAG FORTH souls with violence, And by those who with joyous…

1 Corinthians: 5

1 Corinthians Chapter 5 1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his…

Matthew: 12

Matthew Chapter 12 1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. 2 But when the Pharisees saw…

John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book III

Book III HAil holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from…