Les Feldick Bible Study

How did Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, respond to Elymas?

Filled with the Holy Spirit, Paul fixed his gaze on Elymas and denounced him as full of subtlety and mischief, a child of the devil and enemy of righteousness, asking whether he would not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord.

Les explains that Elymas, also called Bar-Jesus, was a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet who withstood Paul and Barnabas and sought to turn the Roman deputy Sergius Paulus away from the faith. Then Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, set his eyes on Elymas and pronounced a sharp rebuke: 'O full of all subtlety and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?' Les notes that this confrontation was prophetic to a certain degree.

Acts 13:9

Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,

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