Assertion: devil | /r/CapableOf | allude to was a personification of evil
Facets:
value: simply
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Some of these ministers avowed their belief in the existence of his Satanic Majesty, while others actually denied his existence; but some, without stating their own position, said that others believed, not in the existence of a personal devil, but in the personification of evil, and that all references to the Devil in the Scriptures could be explained on the hypothesis that the Devil thus alluded to was simply a personification of evil.