Assertion: devil | /r/HasProperty | allegory
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text: David Joris was the first of the Anabaptists to venture that the Devil was only an allegory (c.1540), his view found a small but persistent following in the Netherlands.
text: Early Bible fundamentalist Unitarians and Dissenters like Nathaniel Lardner, Richard Mead, Hugh Farmer, William Ashdowne and John Simpson, and John Epps taught that the miraculous healings of the Bible were real, but that the Devil was an allegory, and demons just the medical language of the day.