Meaning of Belial | Babel Free

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A wicked demon in Christian and Jewish apocrypha.

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“Here, too, the poet calls attention to Belial's role as one who blurs the borderline between essence and appearance: Belial himself seems fair (physically attractive), but is empty inside, and Milton was surely aware that in Hebrew the first syllable of the fallen angel's name means without.”

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