ACTS 13:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?”
You are a child of the devil and an enemy of all that is right — Paul's indictment echoes Jesus' words to the Pharisees (John 8:44), cutting to the spiritual genealogy rather than mere moral failure. Full of deceit and trickery (dolos kai pantourgias), Elymas represents the father of lies and his methods. The phrase enemy of all righteousness (echthros pasēs dikaiosynēs) places him in cosmic opposition to God's order, not merely human dissent.
Church Fathers on Acts 13:10
filled with the Holy Ghost, looked upon him, and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou child of the devil: Acts 13:10 and observe, this is not abuse, but accusation: for so ought forward, impudent people to be rebuked thou enemy of all righteousness; here he lays bare what was in the thoughts of the man, while under pretext of saving he was ruining the proconsul: will you not cease, he says, to pervert the ways of the Lord? (He says it) both confidently…
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