Paul’s warning about fellowshiping with demons (daimonion) in 1 Corinthians 10:20–21 by eating meat sacrificed to idols. In that passage Paul quotes Deuteronomy 32:17. The clear implication is that Paul considered these beings real and dangerous.19 This is why, in his earlier discussion of the issue of eating such meat, he acknowledged that there were other gods (theoi) and lords among people who did not belong to Yahweh and Jesus (1 Cor 8:1–6).20 Paul was well aware of the divine council worldview that had the nations under lesser elohim and considered them a threat to believers, as they had
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