"Several years ago an acquaintance of the author wrote a newspaper article to demonstrate, that the diabolos or Satan of the New Testament denoted the personification of an abstract idea, and not a personal being. He was answered by a clergyman, who concluded the reply with the deprecatory expression, “I fear that he has denied his Saviour.” In his rejoinder he pleaded, “Oh, no we only denied the Devil.” p. 478"