_Chambers_’s _Cyclopæd._ _Calmet_’s _Hist. Dict._ vol. i. p. 434. Footnote 375: _Lactantius_, lib. ii. cap. 14. _Lugd._ _Bat._ 1652. Many of the Antients have allotted to every Man an Evil Angel, who is continually laying Snares for him, and inclining him to Evil, as his Good Angel does to what is Good. The _Jews_ have still the same Sentiments at this day. Another _Father_ thinks, that every Vice has its Evil Angel, presiding over it; as the Demon of Avarice, the Demon of Pride, of Uncleanness[376].... Footnote 376: _Origen._ Homil. xv. in Josh. _Calmet._ ibid. In _Pagan Theology_, nothing more common than those good and evil Genii, and the same superstitious Notion got among the _Israelites_, by Commerce with the _Chaldeans_; but I don’t apprehend that by Demon, they meant the Devil, or a wicked Spirit, tho’ it be taken under that Idea by the Evangelists, and also some modern _Jews_[377]. Footnote 377: _Cyclopædia._ We are not without some Remains of those antient Representations: Among the various Rarities in the _Musæum_ at _Leyden_ in _Holland_, is the Effigies in Sculpture of _Osiris_, the _Egyptian God_; ’tis made of Wood, and now almost consum’d with Age: There are three other _Egyptian_ Idols of Stone; an Image of _Isis_ (who married _Osiris_, King of the Country) giving suck to her Orr. Another Effigies of _Isis_, the _Egyptian Goddess_, upon a little _Egyptian_ Coffer, containing the Heart of an _Egyptian_ Prince embalm’d therein. The antient Pagans, had almost as many _Goddesses_ as _Gods_; such were _Juno_, the _Goddess of Air_, _&c._ Queen of Heaven, and of the Gods; was represented sitting on a Throne with a Crown of Gold on her Head: This was the Patroness of the female Sex. Every Woman had her _Juno_, or Guardian; as every Man had his _Genius_. She was the Goddess of Marriages, which were not deem’d lawful without the Parties first addrest her. One Branch of her Office was to attend them in Labor, when they pray’d, _Help, Juno Lucina_[378]. Footnote 378: _Juno Lucina fer opem._ She was ador’d by all Nations; her Temple was open on the Top and had no Doors, it being impious to think of confining the Gods to a narrow Inclosure. Yea, many of the Antients would erect no devotional Temples, from a Persuasion that the whole World is the Temple of God. The _Sicyonians_ would build no Temple to their Goddess _Coronis_: Nor would the _Athenians_ erect a Statue to the Goddess _Clemency_, who they said was to live in the _Hearts of Men_, not _within Stone-Walls_. The Goddesses were numerous, but I shall add no more.