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superstitious. We have a striking instance
thereof in Holy Scripture, where the Angel
Raphael says to Tobit, ch. 6, v. 8, speaking
of the fish which he had drawn
from the Tigris : « If thou puttest on
coals a particle of its tiver, the smoke
thereof will drive away all kinds of Demons.
» Experience demonstrated the
trutHTof those words'; for, no sooner was
the liver of the fish set on fire, than the
Incubus who was in love with Sarah was
put to flight.
69. To this Theologians usually retort
that such natural agents merely initiate the
ejection of the Demon, and that the completive
effect is due to the supernatural
force of God or of the Angel ; so that the
supernatural force is the primary, direct
and principal cause, the natural force being
but secondary, indirect and subordinate.
Thus, in order to explain how the liver ot
the fish burnt by Tobit drove away the
Demon, Vallesius asserts that the smoke
thereof had been endowed by God with the
supernatural power of expelling the Incu-
bus, in the same manner as the material
fire of Hell has the virtue of tormenting
Demons and the souls of the Damned.
Others, such as Lyranus and Cornelius,