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the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Mephistopheles
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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The impersonation in Goethe's "Faust" of the modern devil, the incarnation of the spirit of universal scepticism and scoffing, who can see not only no beauty in goodness but no deforming in iniquity, alike without reverence for God and fear of his adversary, blind as a mole to all worth and all unworth throughout the universe, yet knowing and boastful of knowledge, by means of which he sees only "the ridiculous, the unsuitable, the bad, but for the solemn, the noble, the worthy is blind as his ancient mother."
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Mephistopheles'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/m/mephistopheles.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Mephistopheles'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/m/mephistopheles.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
