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Belial

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Be·li·al  (bl-l, blyl)
n.
1. A personification of wickedness and ungodliness alluded to in the Bible.
2. One of the fallen angels who rebelled against God in Milton's Paradise Lost.
Belial [ˈbiːlɪəl]
n
1. (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) a demon mentioned frequently in apocalyptic literature: identified in the Christian tradition with the devil or Satan
2. (Non-Christian Religions / Judaism) (in the Old Testament and rabbinical literature) worthlessness or wickedness
[from Hebrew b<&>līyya`al, from b<&>līy without + ya`al worth]


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BELIAL came last, then whom a Spirit more lewd Fell not from Heaven, or more gross to love Vice for it self: To him no Temple stood Or Altar smoak'd; yet who more oft then hee In Temples and at Altars, when the Priest Turns Atheist, as did ELY'S Sons, who fill'd With lust and violence the house of God.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
``So please you,'' said Ambrose, ``violent hands having been imposed on my reverend superior, contrary to the holy ordinance which I did already quote, and the men of Belial having rifled his mails and budgets, and stripped him of two hundred marks of pure refined gold, they do yet demand of him a large sum beside, ere they will suffer him to depart from their uncircumcised hands.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
You believe, and still you are an accomplice of that child of Belial who is called Lord de Winter
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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