{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2683","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":16,"chapter_to":16,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":18,"verse_to":18},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Bede</b>: I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. Bar-Jesus, who was an adversary of the faith, was struck blind both in physical weakness and loss of his sight. But he managed to deprive this woman, who though perverted in mind, yet spoke the truth, only of her wicked art. For it was unfitting that the word of the Gospel should be proclaimed by an unclean spirit; he commanded this one to depart and be silent, for devils must confess the Lord with trembling, not praise with joy.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: But here it is proper to enquire, both why the demon uttered these things and why Paul rebuked him. In imitation of his Teacher; for so Christ did also rebuke: since it was not his will to have testimony from them. And wherefore did the devil also practise this? Intending to confound the order of things, and to seize upon the dignity of the Apostles, and to persuade many to pay attention to them: which had it happened, they would easily have made themselves appear from hence worthy of credit, and have brought in their own designs. That these things then might not be, and the deceit might not have a beginning, he stops their mouths even when speaking the truth, so that in their falsehoods men should not at all give heed unto them, but stop their ears altogether against the things said by them.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON 1 CORINTHIANS 29.3</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: At first then, Paul would not admit it, but scorned it, not wishing to cast himself all at once upon miracles; but when it continued to do this, and pointed to their work \"who preach unto us the way of salvation,\" then he commanded it to come out. For it says, \"Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.\"</p><p>\"And Paul being grieved,\" etc. By their clamor and shouting they thought to alarm them the magistrates: saying, \"These men do exceedingly trouble our city.\" What sayest thou? Dost thou believe the demon? Why not here also? He saith, They are \"servants of the most high God\"; thou sayest, \"They exceedingly trouble our city\": he saith, \"They show us the way of salvation\"; thou sayest, \"They teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive.\" Observe, how they do not attend even to the demon, but look only to one thing, their covetousness.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 35</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Paul says, that is, stirred up and distressed, having noticed even by her face that she spoke the truth, ordered the demon to come out of her: teaching us that we should not accept demons under the ploy of bearing testimony to the truth, but should shut off every path of deceit from them, and close our ears to all that belongs to them. [SEVERUS]<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"e44f27388c3729460d3918f2a072732a9194cdd690583bd434a27e3c24b60d53","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2683,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"bd07f0545219cedf09de9b1c92a9a374fa1e567d6834d1ef0d142e38f6cdb8d9","translator":null,"work":null}