Note 118 — LECTURE III. Primitive Religious Expression: in the Word.

Select Works of St. Ephrem, p. 122. (Trans. by the Rev. J. B. Morris.) The name of Jesus was regarded by the early church as magical in itself. Arnobius says of him, “whose Name, when heard, puts to flight evil spirits, imposes silence on soothsayers, prevents men from consulting the augurs, and frustrates the efforts of magicians.”—Adversus Gentes, lib. i., cap. 46.