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Related to the Lesson-Sermons for June 1979 in the Christian Science Quarterly—Bible Lessons

From the May 1979 issue of The Christian Science Journal


There shall not be ... any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire (Deut. 18:10)

This description heads a catalog of terms applying to all sorts of magicians, the precise distinctions among which are uncertain. The reference to fire may indicate some kind of trial by ordeal, a type of fire worship, or another mode of primitive ritual.

Lucifer, son of the morning (Isa. 14:12)

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