[54] In the newly-found tablet to which English editors give the title "Logia Jesou," the 5th "Logion," so far as it can be made out, reads: "... saith where there are ... and there is one alone ... I am with him. Raise the stone and there thou shalt find me, cleave the wood and there am I." The last sentence seems to be based on Eccles. x. 9: "Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby." The first sentence may be an allusion to the poor man who alone saved the city (Eccles. ix.). There is no such word as "Jesus" in this "Logion," and perhaps it is Wisdom who speaks. [55] Asmodeus (identified as Aêshma by West, Bundahis xxv. 15, n. 10) has (Tobit vi. 13) slain seven men who successively married Sara, whom he (and Tobit) loved, and in Bundahis Aêshma has seven powers with which he will slay seven Kayan heroes. But one is preserved, as Tobit is. (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. V, p. 108.) Darmesteter says: "One of the foremost amongst the Drvants (storm-fiends), their leader in their onsets, is Aêshma, 'the raving,' 'a fiend with the wounding spear.' Originally a mere epithet of the storm fiend, Aêshma was afterwards converted into an abstract, the demon of rage and anger, and became an expression for all moral wickedness, a mere name of Ahriman." [56] The word translated "cross" is stauros, a stake. The christian cross began its development by the carving of a figure of Jesus on the stake, which required a support for the arms. Protestantism, by removing the figure, has left the wooden fetish, which, however, has been invested with Symbolical meanings, some derived from the various crosses held sacred in many countries long before Christ. [57] Paul (1 Tim. ii. 14), supposing him to have written the passage, uses the story simply to justify the subordination of woman to man, but a witty lady remarked to me that according to the story in Genesis no harm came to the world by Eve's eating the fruit of knowledge. It was only by the man's eating it that the thorns sprang up. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Solomon and Solomonic Literature, by Moncure Daniel Conway