 | Albert Barnes - 1840 - 790 pages
...hospitality, and also an evidence of her desire for further instruction in the doctrines of religion. VER. 16. And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain...which brought her masters much gain " by soothsaying : I 1 Sam. xxviil. 7. m or, Python. n Chap. xix. H. As we went to prayer. — Greek, "as we were joing... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us. And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain...divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsayir. the same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most... | |
 | John Potter - 1840 - 864 pages
...miS'iffxiiy Ttvat i%otiffx9 vnwfLtt Huicnoi, ctvcLfTwitt rtft7v. Our translators have rendered it thus: And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain...damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination, met us. But the margin reads python, instead of divination, which is a general name, and may be used in that... | |
 | Saint John Chrysostom - 1840 - 428 pages
...16, not even in his flattery. For when that damsel, who had the P ( . 1 7 * . spirit of divination, cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most...high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation, he rebuked him severely, and silenced his forward Rom. 16, tongue. And again he elsewhere writes, and... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 426 pages
...this is expressly confirmed in Scripture, if you will take its authority for anything ; Acts xvi. 16: A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination...which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying : so that divination and southsaying is the same thing. NB Observe that this divination is here called... | |
 | Greg Powe - 2001 - 134 pages
...judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us. And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain...which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. You should take this Scripture right here and see that it really verifies that there are familiar spirits.... | |
 | Jonas Clark - 2001 - 138 pages
...churches. Our generation must understand its operations and be careful to judge all prophetic operations. "And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain...which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying." (Acts 16:16 KJV Italics added) 16.) A FAMILIAR SPIRIT This spirit is one that is familiar with the... | |
 | John Phillips - 2001 - 538 pages
...deals with sin. (b) HELD BY THE CRUEL CHAINS OF SATAN (16:166-17) i. HER DEMON POSSESSION (16:166) A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination...which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. demon Apollo. The shrine, famous for the oracles associated with this god, was at Delphi (Pytho) in... | |
 | Josef Holzner - 2002 - 544 pages
...long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ" (Phil. 1: 8). CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE THE FORTUNE-TELLER "And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain girl having a pythonical spirit met us, who brought to her masters much gain b\ divining " (Acts 16:16).... | |
 | Robert Israel - 2003 - 546 pages
...girl possessed by a spirit of divination (Acts 16:16). She followed Paul and his team around Philippi, saying, "These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation." (16:17) This wasn'ta one-time deal. The Bible says, "And this did she many days..." (16:18a). Was her... | |
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And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying : the same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high... 
