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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 19:16 - 19:16
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And the man in whom the evil spirit was - Mark the clear line of demarcation here between “the evil spirit which answered and said” and “the man in whom the evil spirit was.” The reality of such possessions could not be more clearly expressed.
leaped on them ... so that they fled ... naked and wounded - This was so appalling a testimony at once against those profane impostors and in favor of Paul and the Master whom he preached, that we wonder not that it spread to “all the Jews and Greeks at Ephesus, that fear fell on them,” and that “the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.”