Identifier: demonologydevill00conw2 (find matches)
Title: Demonology and devil-lore
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907
Subjects: Demonology Mythology Occultism
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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from his power one who had done both good andevil.i When Ahriman met Zoroasters gaze, he cried, Quit thou the pure law; cast it to the ground; thou wiltthen be in the world all that thou canst desire. Be notanxious about thy end. At least, do not destroy my sub-jects, O pure Zoroaster, son of Poroscharp, who art bornof her thou hast borne! Zoroaster answered, WickedMajesty! it is for thee and thy worshippers that Hell isprepared, but by the mercy of God I shall bury your workwith shame and ignominy. In the account of Matthew, Satan begins his temptationof Jesus in the same way and amid similar circumstancesto those we find in the Siamese legends of Buddha. Itoccurs in a wilderness, and the appeal is to hunger. The ^ Some say Djemschid, others Guenschesp, a warrior sent to hell for beat-inir the fire. SATAN AND CHRIST. ^85 temptation of Buddha, in which Mara promises the empireof the world, is also repeated in the case of Satan andJesus (Fig. 6). The menaces, however, in this case, are
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Fig. 6.—Temptation of Christ (Lucas van Leyden). relegated to the infancy, and the lustful temptation is,absent altogether. Mark has an allusion to his being- in i86 CRITICISM OF STRAUSS. the wilderness forty days with the beasts, which maymean that Satan drove him into a region of danger toinspire fear. In Luke we have the remarkable claim ofSatan that the authority over the world has been deliveredto himself, and he gives it to whom he will; which Jesusdoes not deny, as Buddha did the similar claim of Mara.As in the case of Buddha, the temptation of Jesus endshis fasting; angels bring him food (hiTjKovovv avrS pro-bably means that), and thenceforth he eats and drinks,to the scandal of the ascetics. The essential addition in the case of Jesus is the notabletemptation to try and perform a crucial act. Satan quotesan accredited messianic prophecy, and invites Jesus totest his claim to be the predicted deliverer by castinghimself from the pinnacle of the Temple, and testing thepromise

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