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18. πολλοί τε τῶν πεπιστευκότων, and many of those who had believed, i.e. who had made a profession of their faith. Clearly it was as yet only an imperfect belief. But the N.T. charity often names those ‘saints’ who are only on the way to become so.
ἤρχοντο ἐξομολογούμενοι, came and confessed, i.e. came before the Apostle and the Christian brethren, and acknowledged that their profession had not as yet been completely followed by their practice.
καὶ ἀναγγέλλοντες τὰς πράξεις αὐτῶν, and published their deeds. ἀναγγέλλω implies the ‘making of a public announcement.’ The πράξεις were the practices connected with witchcraft, sorcery and exorcism, that were inconsistent with the Christian life. πρᾶξις is thus used, without any defining word, of an evil course of action in Luk 23:51.