spirit
(Greek, "pneuma", "a Python").
As we went to prayer - Greek: as we were going to the proseuche, ‘the place of prayer, Acts 16:13 . Whether this was on the same day in which th...
(10) And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of (f) divination met us, which brought her masters much gai...
Exorcism of a Possessed Girl. The walk to the place of prayer is made frequently, and the party comes to be known. A girl who carried on a trade in...
damsel . Greek. paidiske. See note on Acts 12:13 . read "a spirit,. Python". The Python was. serpent destroyed, according to Greek Mythology, by...
− 16. Luke prosecuteth the increase of the Church; for though he do not straightway in a word express that thing, yet is it easily gathered out...
DISCOURSE: 1786 A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION CAST OUT Acts 16:16-18 . And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spi...
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 soot...
As we went to prayer,— Or, To the oratory. The manner in which St. Luke relates this history,plainly implies that he considered it as a real poss...
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...
St. Paul in Europe 1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother...
Journey into Europe, Philippi. 6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the...
As we went to prayer. — Better, perhaps, to the oratory, or place of prayer. (See Note on Acts 16:13 .) It should be stated, however, that the...
Welcomed; Attested; Imprisoned Acts 16:14-24 This was an epoch-making moment, but how quietly it is recorded. There was no heralding of the gos...
Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the rec...
And it came to pass as we went to prayer ,.... That is, to the house of prayer, or to the oratory, as they were in the way to it; for this is not to...
As we went to prayer Or to the place of prayer, mentioned before; a certain damsel met us (that is, met Paul and his three companions) possessed...
Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evide...
The Expulsion of an Evil Spirit; Persecution of Philippi. 16 And it came to pass,...
Went to prayer; went towards the place where their public prayers were usually made. Of divination; or, of Python, the name of Apollo, from the p...
The Mission to Europe (16:6-19:20). Paul's plans now seemed to begin to go awry. All doors seemed to be closing to him as in one way or another he...
Ministry in Philippi From the House of Lydia (16:12b-40). The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He illustrates the suc...
‘And it came about that, as we were going to the place of prayer, a certain maid having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much g...
The Healing of the Girl Possessed With The Python Spirit (16:16-18). But Paul could not land in Europe in the power of the Holy Spirit without exp...
CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 16:16 . A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination .—Better, a female slave ( Galatians 4:22 ) having the s...
Acts 16:9 . And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help...
Acts 16:1 . Then came he to Lystra, as in Acts 14:6 . In their former labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy her s...
A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination. The Pythoness The words, literally, are as in the margin, a spirit of Python, or, as so...
EXPOSITION Acts 16:1 And he came also for then came he, A.V. and T.R.; to Lystra for Lystra, A.V. ; Timothy for Timotheus, A.V...
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 soo...
The encounter with the spirit of divination:
1 Chronicles 10:13 ; 1 Samuel 28:7 ; 1 Timothy 6:10 ; 2 Peter 2:3 ; 2 Timothy 3:8 ; Acts 19:24 ; Acts 16:13 ; Acts 16:18 ; Acts 8:9-11 ; De...
16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divinationc met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: