You don't get an automatic win on the Bishop's life because we're interested in the oldest manuscript. He may have lived in AD 180, but his manuscripts are likely dated much later. It's not as if we have the originals.
Oh, I don't know about any of that. Obviously the numbers would change the meaning in that case. I'm more concerned with the original meaning than anything people make up today.
This is a fun thought experiment, but it falls apart in my opinion if we consider the Bible to be the source of what we know about demons. That is, if we use the Bible to come up with the definition of what demons are, they couldn't have written the Bible.
Besides, the NT considers the...