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NOTE D.

“Philostratus tells how Apollonius of Tyana ordered a devil who had possessed a youth to depart with a visible sign, upon which the devil entreated


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to be allowed to upset a statue that stood near, and this statue did really fall over just at the moment when the devil left the young man.”—

Strauss' “New Life of Jesus,” authorised translation, 1865. Vol. II., p. 186.
 

“Vita Apollon. iv. 20.”