Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 16:16
As we went to prayer. To the place of prayer.
A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination. Literally,
"The spirit of a Pythoness". This meant, among the Greeks, a prophetic
spirit, Pythias being one of the names of Apollo, the god of prophecy.
The account shows (1) that the damsel was "possessed", (2) that her
strange power gave her value in that it was superhuman, (3) that she
was a slave, owned by several masters, and brought them "much gain by
soothsaying". Luke does not say that she foretold the future, but the
people thought she did. She was a demoniac. See PNT "Mt 8:29".
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Acts 16:16
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