Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 8:7

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Acts 8:7

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Acts 8:7

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"For [from] many of those that had unclean spirits, they came out, crying with a loud voice: and many that were palsied, and that were lame, were healed." — Acts 8:7 (ASV)

For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice.—The manuscripts present several variations in the structure of the sentence, but they do not affect its meaning. The character of the “signs” agrees with those that are recorded in the Gospels. The “great cry,” partly, it may be, of agony, partly of exultation at deliverance, agrees with Mark 1:26; Luke 4:33.