George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Acts 16:17
These men are the servants of the most high God. Evil spirits in possessed people, are sometimes forced to tell the truth. (Witham) read more
Acts 16:12-39 Niv
George Haydock
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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Acts 16:18
Observe here that the servants of God have a power granted them of controlling wicked spirits, according to the promise of our Lord, Luke ix. and x. Hence the seventy disciples, returning, said: Lord, even the devils are subject to us in thy name. (Estius, in different location) read more
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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Acts 16:20
Jews. this was the name the first Christians went by among the pagans. Indeed our Saviour's being born of that nation, and his disciples adoring the same God, and following the same morality and Scriptures as the Jews, were sufficient reasons to make them confounded. When Suetonius relates that Claudius banished the Jews from Rome, he means the Christians. (Calmet) read more
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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Acts 16:21
There was a standing decree of the senate, which forbade the introduction of any new divinity, without the formal consent of the senate. (Bible de Vence) read more
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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Acts 16:24
Made their feet fast in the stocks. By the Latin and Greek text, they made them fast with wood. (Witham) read more
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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Acts 16:26
All the doors were opened. This made the jailer conclude the prisoners had made their escape. And he being answerable for them, and expecting to be put to death, was for stabbing himself. (Witham) read more
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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Acts 16:33
Was baptized, being first told what he was to believe, and do. (Witham) --- Hence Catholics draw a very plausible argument for the baptism of infants, as it is very probable there were some infants in the family. See Estius, in different location. read more
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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Acts 16:35
Sent the serjeants, [2] vergers, or such like officers. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Lictores, Greek: rabduchous, vergers, rod-bearers. ==================== read more
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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Acts 16:37
Romans. St. Paul inherited his right of citizenship from his father; it does not appear how Silas obtained it, perhaps by purchase. There is no proof that Silas was a freeman of Rome. (Denis the Carthusian) --- It was forbidden by the Porcian and Sempronian laws, for a Roman citizen to be scourged, unless he was likewise convicted of a capital crime. Cicero pro Rabirio. Facinus est vinciri civem Romanum: scelus verberari. Id. cont. Verrem. The Romans were always very jealous of the dignity of... read more
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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Acts 16:16
A pythonical spirit. A spirit pretending to divination, to tell secrets, and things to come. See 2 Kings xxviii; Isaias viii. 19. (Witham) --- A divining spirit, which pretended to foretell things to come. It is strictly forbidden every where throughout the old law to have any dealings with persons of this description. (Deuteronomy xviii. 10; Leviticus xx. 27; &c.) Hence it would appear that these superstitions were of early practice among mankind. It is lamentable that the present age is... read more