 Servetus responded "all things are a part and portion of God".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.The view was transmitted to England and Joris's booklet was reprinted anonymously in English in 1616, prefiguring a spate of non-literal Devil interpretations in the 1640s-1660s