[1184] J. Menant, Les Yésidis (in Annales du Musée Guimet); Isya Joseph, Yesidi Texts (reprinted from American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, xxv (1909), no. 2 f.). Cf. the idea of restoration in Col. i, 20.
[1185] So the Christian Satan.
[1186] When, in the reports of travelers and other observers, demons are said to be placated, examination shows that these beings are gods who happen to be mischievous. Of this character, for example, appear to be the "demons" mentioned in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, ii, 122.
[1187] Frazer, Golden Bough, 2d ed., iii, 39 ff.
[1188] But see below, § 704.
[1189] Baethgen, Beiträge zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte; Wellhausen, Skissen, iii, 25; Nöldeke, in Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 1886, 1888, and article "Arabs (Ancient)" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics; Pinches, article "Gad," and Driver, article "Meni," in Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible; Cheyne, article "Fortune" in Encyclopædia Biblica; Commentaries of Delitzsch, Duhm, Marti, Skinner, and Box on Isa. lxv, 11.
[1190] Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon, s.v. The Old Testament title "Rock" given to Yahweh (Deut. xxxii, 18, "the Rock that begat thee") is figurative, but may go back to a divine rock.
[1191] On the Hebrew place-name (Job i, 1) and perhaps personal name (Gen. xxxvi, 28) Uṣ (Uz), which seems to be formally identical with 'Auḍ, see W. R. Smith, Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia, 1st ed., p. 260 f., and his Religion of the Semites, p. 43; Wellhausen, Skissen, iii; Nöldeke, in Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft, xl, 183 f.
[1192] Maniya, plural manâyā.
[1193] Isa. lxv, 11; III Rawlinson, 66.