By virtue of his self-reliance, his individualism and his freedom from external restraint, the private eye is a perfect embodiment of the middle class conception of liberty, which amounts to doing what you please and let the devil take the hindmost.

For all involved in this discussion the devil is a real entity who can really be confronted in the woods on a dark night, the demon world is populated with real creatures, and witches actually can be seen flying through the air.

The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.

Yet are not we of the mid-twentieth century, who rightly do not believe there is any such `` thing '' as the devil, just as bad off as they -- only in a different way??

" He that honoureth the bishop is honoured of God ; he that doeth aught without the knowledge of the bishop rendereth service to the devil " — Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnans 9: 1.

" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.

The word bunyip is usually translated by Aboriginal Australians today as " devil " or " evil spirit ".

This, it contends, is what Jesus meant when he said that " the devil is a liar and the father of it " ( John 8: 44 ).

They believe that the word devil is a reference in the scriptures to sin and human nature in opposition to God, while the word satan is merely a reference to an adversary ( be it good or bad ).

According to one variant of the Valentinian system, the Demiurge is besides the maker, out of the appropriate substance, of an order of spiritual beings, the devil, the prince of this world, and his angels.

But the devil, as being a spirit of wickedness, is able to recognise the higher spiritual world, of which his maker the Demiurge, who is only animal, has no knowledge.

The devil resides in this lower world, of which he is the prince, the Demiurge in the heavens ; his mother Sophia in the middle region, above the heavens and below the Pleroma.

Drummer Asheim said, " The whole point of Satanic music is to blaspheme against the Church ", " I don't believe in or worship a devil.

The most passionate and virile character in the novel is Rhett with whom Margaret Mitchell associates " dark sexuality " and the " black devil ".

In Rosemary's Baby ( Roman Polanski, 1968 ), set in New York, the devil is made flesh.

" In the story, a devil is hiding within a pagan idol, and bound by Bartholomew's spiritual powers to acknowledge himself and confess, the devil refers to Jesus as the one which " made war on Hel our queen " ( Old Norse heriaði a Hel drottning vara ).

On The Simpsons, Abraham Simpson stated, " The metric system is the tool of the devil!

The spotted hyena is renowned for its strong bite proportional to its size, but a number of other animals ( including the Tasmanian devil ) are proportionately stronger .< ref >

The collective subconscious image of the horned aliens is what accounts for mankind's image of the devil or Satan.

As distinct from the dust devil, it is improbable that the height reached by the fire gas vortex is greater than the visible height of the vertical flames because of turbulence in the surrounding gases that inhibit creation of a stable boundary layer between the rotating / rising gases relative to the surrounding gases.

The Atlantic wolffish ( Anarhichas lupus ), also known as the seawolf, Atlantic catfish, ocean catfish, devil fish, wolf eel ( the common name for its Pacific relative ), or sea cat, is a marine fish, the largest of the wolffish family Anarhichadidae.

Then he realized the devil must have laid it out there to tempt him.

Saint Anthony continued walking along and saw a pile of gold in his way which the devil had laid there to deceive him.

Due to his efforts to root out simony and other corruption within the Church, and his connection with science and intellectualism, there were many rumors and legends spread of Sylvester II being a sorcerer in league with the devil.

Unlike Faust, there is no point at which Dorian makes a deal with the devil.

Despite rumours of devil worship and other dark arts being practised during the meetings, there is no evidence to prove this.

A devil ray, Mobula mobular, was introduced in 2003 and lives there still.

" " how can there be a God without a devil?

According to the legend, there was once a devil who often tormented and harassed the local people.

Even now after a rainfall it is said that the devil ’ s hand print can still be seen there.

Nobody but a devil can find us there.

But my dear Lord Raglan, what the devil is there to knock down?

* Russian: " Помяни чёрта (, он и появится )", ( Pomyani chorta, on i poyavitsya ) translated as " Speak of the devil ( and there he is ).

Among them there are myths that claim that during his life he had sold his soul to the devil in order to " defeat men and be loved by women ".

When rumors begin to circulate that there is witchcraft in the town, Abigail and Betty Parris began to name people as having been in league with the devil, which was the most common way a " witch " was identified, to save themselves.

Standing on a mound in the heath is the 400 tonne, 17 ft ( 5. 2 m ) high Agglestone Rock ; the local myth states that the devil threw it there from the Isle of Wight.

He said that shortly after the experience, he told the story of his revelation to a Methodist minister who responded " with great contempt, saying it was all of the devil, that there was no such thing as visions or revelations in these days ; that all such things had ceased with the apostles, and that there never would be any more of them.

For instance, in the canonized account, Smith said that when he shared his vision with a Methodist minister, the latter treated his " communication not only lightly, but with great contempt, saying it was all of the devil, that there were no such things as visions or revelations in these days.

However, there have been at least three mentions of the devil, Hell and other demons.

Nobody but a devil can find us there.

According to the legend, there was once a devil who often tormented and harassed the local people.

My soul was in an agony ; I wept, I prayed, and said, " Now, Lord, if there is mercy for me, let me find it ," and it really seemed to me that I could almost lay hold of the Saviour, and realize a reconciled God, All of a sudden, such a fear of the devil fell upon me that it really appeared to me that he was surely personally there, to seize and drag me down to hell, soul and body, and such a horror fell on me that I sprang to my feet and ran to my mother at the house.