ACTS 19:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.”
Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits (exorkistai, exorcists) tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed — They said, 'In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out' — Jewish exorcists (exorkistai) attempt to harness apostolic authority through rote invocation of Jesus's name. Their strategy assumes transferable power divorced from personal faith.
Church Fathers on Acts 19:12
He departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. And this was done for the space of two years, so that all that were in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. Acts 19:10 (a) Do you mark how much was effected by his persisting? Both Jews and Greeks heard: (c) all that dwelt in Asia: it was for this also that the Lord suffered him not to go into Asia Acts 16:6 (on a former occasion); waiting, as it seems to me,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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