Commentary on Acts of the Apostles · Matthew Henry

061 - Acts 1616-24

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Paul commands an evil spirit out of a slave girl whose masters profited from her supernatural abilities.
Matthew Henry's commentary on Acts 16:16-24, exploring Paul's encounter with a demon-possessed fortune-teller, his miraculous exorcism, and the subsequent persecution and imprisonment of Paul and Silas by Roman authorities.

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A grave, measured reading of spiritual opposition and suffering in Acts.

Acts 16:16-24 is handled as a grave meeting point between proclamation and resistance, opening with the slave girl whose spirit of divination names the apostles while still mocking them.

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You want a close reading of a passage where a girl's witness, Paul's grief, and public hostility collide.

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