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XXVI.
Why may not those who go into the temptations of
the show become accessible also to evil spirits? We have the case of
the woman—the Lord Himself is witness—who went to the
theatre, and came back possessed. In the outcasting,369
| 369 [The exorcism. For
the exorcism in Baptism, see Bunsen, Hippol. iii.
19.] |
accordingly, when the unclean creature was upbraided with having dared
to attack a believer, he firmly replied,370
| 370 See Neander’s
explanation in Kaye, p. xxiii. But, let us observe the entire
simplicity with which our author narrates a sort of incident known to
the apostles. Acts xvi.
16.] |
“And in truth I did it most righteously, for I found her in my
domain.” Another case, too, is well known, in which a woman had
been hearing a tragedian, and on the very night she saw in her sleep a
linen cloth—the actor’s name being mentioned at the same
time with strong disapproval—and five days after that woman was
no more. How many other undoubted proofs we have had in the case of
persons who, by keeping company with the devil in the shows, have
fallen from the Lord! For no one can serve two masters.371
What fellowship has light with darkness, life
with death?372
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