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|txtha=δαιμονίου, τό (neuter of adjective [[δαιμόνιος]], δαιμόνια, [[δαιμόνιον]], [[divine]], from [[δαίμων]]; equivalent to τό [[θεῖον]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> the [[divine]] Power, [[deity]], [[divinity]]; so [[sometimes]] in [[secular]] authors as Josephus, b. j. 1,2, 8; Aelian v. h. 12,57; in plural καινά δαιμόνια, [[Xenophon]], mem. 1,1, 1f, and [[once]] in the N. T. ξενα δαιμόνια, a [[spirit]], a [[being]] [[inferior]] to God, [[superior]] to men ([[πᾶν]] τό [[δαιμόνιον]] [[μεταξύ]] ἐστι Θεοῦ τέ καί θνητοῦ, [[Plato]], symp. 23, p. 202e. ([[where]] [[see]] Stallbaum)), in [[both]] a [[good]] [[sense]] and a [[bad]]; [[thus]] Jesus, [[after]] his [[resurrection]], said to his disciples [[οὐκ]] [[εἰμί]] [[δαιμόνιον]] ἀσωματον, as Ignatius (ad Smyrn. 3,2 [ET]) records it; [[πνεῦμα]] δαιμονίου ἀκαθάρτου (genitive of apposition), πονηρόν, [[δαιμόνιον]] ἤ [[πνεῦμα]] πονηρόν, ibid. [[evil]] spirits or the messengers and ministers of the [[devil]] (Winer's Grammar, 23 (22)): πνεύματα δαιμονίων ( δαιμον´ων) i. e. of [[that]] [[rank]] of spirits [[that]] are demons (genitive of apposition), [[ἄρχων]] τῶν δαιμονίων, the [[prince]] of the demons, or the [[devil]]: ἐισέρχεσθαι [[εἰς]] τινα, to [[enter]] [[into]] (the [[body]] of) [[one]] to [[vex]] him [[with]] diseases ([[see]] [[δαιμονίζομαι]]): ἐκβληθῆναι and ἐξέρχεσθαι ἐκ τίνος or [[ἀπό]] τίνος, [[when]] [[they]] are [[forced]] to [[come]] [[out]] of [[one]] to [[restore]] him to [[health]]: ἐκβάλλειν δαιμόνια, is used of those [[who]] [[compel]] demons to [[come]] [[out]]: ἔχειν [[δαιμόνιον]], to [[have]] a [[demon]], be [[possessed]] by a [[demon]], is said of those [[who]] [[either]] [[suffer]] from [[some]] [[exceptionally]] [[severe]] [[disease]], ἔχων δαιμόνια); or [[act]] and [[speak]] as [[though]] [[they]] were [[mad]], δαιμόνια stands for אֱלִילִים שֵׁדִים προσκυνεῖν τά δαιμόνια καί τά εἴδωλα, θυουσι, he says δαιμονίοις θύουσιν καί οὐ Θεῷ, Sept. of Baudissin, Stud. zur scmit. Religionsgesch. vol. i. (St. ii. 4), p. 110ff). Pernicious errors are disseminated by demons [[even]] [[among]] Christians, seducing [[them]] from the [[truth]], Josephus, [[also]] makes [[mention]] of δαιμόνια [[taking]] [[possession]] of men, Antiquities 6,11, 2 f; 6,8, 2; 8,2, 5; [[but]] he sees in [[them]], [[not]] as the N. T. writers do, [[bad]] angels, [[but]] the spirits of [[wicked]] men [[deceased]], b. j. 7,6, 3.