ACTS 19:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.”
Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all — He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding — The violent retribution against the sons of Sceva (v. 14 context implies these are his sons) demonstrates the futility of unauthorized exorcistic invocation. Nakedness and bloodying carry humiliating reversal.
Church Fathers on Acts 19:14
And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you? And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. Acts 19:14-16 They did it in secret: then their impotence is publicly exposed. (f) Then not the Name does anything, unless it be spoken with faith.…
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