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2 results for "sacrifice"
1. Septuagint, Deuteronomy, 32.17 (th cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •sacrifice, daimons feed on Found in books: Janowitz (2002) 31
2. Porphyry, On Abstinence, 2.42 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •sacrifice, daimons feed on Found in books: Janowitz (2002) 31
2.42. 42.For they are full of every kind of imagination, and are sufficiently qualified to deceive, through effects of a prodigious nature; and through these, unhappy men procure philtres, and amatory allurements. For all intemperance, and hope of possessing wealth and renown, and especially deception, exist through these, since falsehood is allied to these malevolent beings; for they wish to he considered as Gods, and the power which presides over them is ambitious to appear to be the greatest God. These are they that rejoice in libations, and the savour of sacrifices, through which their pneumatic vehicle is fattened; for this vehicle lives through vapours and exhalations, and the life of it is various through various exhalations. It is likewise corroborated by the savour of blood and flesh. SPAN