the wicked spirits
group · 2 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
spirits of wickedness · the demons · demons · the demonic host · the rulers of the air and world-rulers of the darkness
in the texts
Barlaam and Josaphat
The host of evil spirits summoned by Theudas to assault Josaphat with lust.
Pondering these things and bursting into tears, he beat his breast, driving out those wicked thoughts from there like evil drones.
And the wicked spirit, taking with it other and more wicked spirits, came upon the chamber of the noble youth, and fell upon him, kindling most fiercely the furnace of the flesh.
" So Theudas marched out with the satanic army present with him, and armed himself against the truth, calling up many of the wicked spirits, which he knew worked eagerly together for evil, and which that man always used as his servants;
Adversus Praxean
Demonic beings who confess Jesus's divine sonship.
" This too the demons thereafter confess: