cs sometimes use the name in the sense, as in the Psalm, "All the gods of the Gentiles are demons" ( Ps. 95:5 ). The same remark applies to the Second and Third Objections. For these reasons proceed from the different predication of the name, and not from its various significatio…

y giving answers in the idols, and doing things which to men seemed marvelous. Hence it is written ( Ps. 95:5 ): "All the gods of the Gentiles are devils." Reply to Objection 1: The dispositive cause of idolatry was, on the part of man, a defect of nature, either through ignoranc…

de quibus verbo virtutis suae spiritus ejecit immundos. Unde scribitur: Omnes dii gentium daemonia (Psal. XCV, 5) . Nam Christus verbo ad nos venit; quia fides ex auditu est, auditus autem per verbum Dei. Quo plane captivos ab impia damnatione reddidit liberos, et omnes nos sanav…