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Chapter 18  
     
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 And I ordered another spirit to come before me.  
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 And there came before my face another enslaved spirit, having obscurely the form of a man, with gleaming eyes, and bearing in his hand a blade.  
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 And I asked: "Who art thou?  
4.
 But he answered: "I am a lascivious spirit, engendered of a giant man who dies in the massacre in the time of the giants."  
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 I said to him: "Tell me what thou art employed on upon earth, and where thou hast thy dwelling."  
6.
 And he said: "My dwelling is in fruitful places, but my procedure is this. I seat myself beside the men who pass along among the tombs, and in untimely season I assume the form of the dead;  
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 and if I catch any one, I at once destroy him with my sword.  
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 But if I cannot destroy him, I cause him to be possessed with a demon, and to devour his own flesh, and the hair to fall off his chin.  
9.
 But I said to him: "Do thou then be in fear of the God of heaven and of earth, and tell me by angel thou art frustrated."  
10.
 And he answered: "He destroys me who is to become Saviour, a man whose number, if any one shall write it on his forehead, he will defeat me, and in fear I shall quickly retreat.  
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 And, indeed, if any one write this sign on him, I shall be in fear."  
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 And I Solomon, on hearing this, and having glorified the Lord God, shut up this demon like the rest.  
   

 
 
 

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