Clavis Libri

Literary device

Oxymoron

Joining two words of opposite meaning in one short expression, such as "bittersweet."

In Demons

He will come, and his name is man-god.

"Man-god" joins in one compound word the human and the divine, which tradition keeps apart. The order reversed from "God-man" makes the expression a new idea, and not a name for Christ.

Part Two: The Night of the Creditors, Kirillov