So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
So that from ('even from') his body were brought - `brought away' is the preferable reading х apoferesthai (G667)] --
Unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons. The meaning is, that both were brought, and that the cures were performed whether the one or the other were used. See the note at Acts 5:15.
And the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them. How different were these miracles from the magical arts practiced at Ephesus! (Acts 19:18-19.) "God" performed these "miracles" merely "by the hands of Paul;" and the very exorcists (Acts 19:13) observing that the name of Jesus was the secret of all his miracles, hoped, by aping him in this, to be equally successful; while the result of all, in the "magnifying of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 19:17), showed that in working them the apostle took care to hold up Him whom he preached as the source of all the miracles which he performed.