ACTS 19:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?”
When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor — The incident's publicity and its terrifying outcome ('seized with fear,' phobos, reverential awe) paradoxically elevate Jesus's name (onoma) in public estimation. Fear produces reverence.
Church Fathers on Acts 19:15
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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