Accordingly they went here and there, calling out, Hearken to the glad tidings; the world is near its end.
But if the doctors were afraid, they were not converted; and notwithstanding the cure of the paralytic, they had no faith in the absolution granted by Jesus.
In whatever way we consider them, one of the genealogies will always appear faulty and incomplete, and the extraction of Jesus very weakly established.
They will ask, how the divine nature could unite with the nature of a woman?
The earliest record of the special ordination of exorcists is the 7th canon of the council of Carthage (A.
From the symptoms mentioned it would appear that the individuals with whom the exorcists succeeded were epileptics.
The disastrous consequences of an attempt, on the part of the sons of a Jewish priest, to heal the afflicted by using the name of the Lord Jesus as a charm, alarmed the entire tribe of exorcists and magicians.
Those of whom Tertullian writes disown the devil under the hand of these exorcists and are then thrice baptized.
Apostate teachers had elected exorcists in what they called the church, whose business it was to expel the devil from the candidate for baptism.
All my best exorcists have been trying all they know with it, to no purpose.
The bell must go to his cathedral city, there to be examined and reported on by the exorcists and inquisitors.
Brethren," said one of the senior cardinals, "it hath been delivered by the exorcists that a sorcerer or other individual in league with the demon doth usually bear upon his person some visible token of his infernal compact.
In this case there was no John Darrel, and the exorcists were probably honest but deluded men.
In the narrative of English witchcraft the story of the exorcistsis a side-issue.
That the reign which had seen pass in procession the bands of conjurers and witches should close with the exorcists was to be expected.
Harsnett was deputed to write the account of the Catholic exorcists which was brought out in 1603 under the title of A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures.
But the exorcists were not by any means disheartened.
Therefore the Hebrew exorcists found easily a fertile soil for the cultivation of their supernatural art.
Naturally, among nations where such views prevailed, physicians were but little esteemed, and the cure of disease devolved upon exorcists and sorcerers.
Furthermore, the exorcists announced that six of the strongest men in the town would try to prevent the contortions of the, weakest of the convulsed nuns, and would fail.
But the exorcistswere sure that the last trick would go off without a hitch.
He was therefore brought back to prison about six o'clock in the evening, and the rest of the day the exorcists were employed in calming the poor sisters--a task of no small difficulty.
The magistrates answered that as they were there in order to examine thoroughly into the facts of the case, they begged the exorcists to give them every possible proof that the possession was real.
This uncertainty brought great gain to many vagrant exorcists which wandered here and there throughout Galilee, their scrips full of amulets, charms, drugs, magic roots, and books of incantations.
I have taken Raphael," he said, "to many exorcists before, but never a man of them was to be compared with this learned man.
In the Acts of the Apostles only two cases of possession are mentioned, one that of the damsel at Philippi, and the other the occasion when certain Jewish exorcistsundertook to exorcise demoniacs at Ephesus in the name of Jesus.
This being so, it follows that exorcists might be capable of exerting upon maniacs a powerful influence favourable to cure.
The want of success with which exorcistswere not unfrequently attended is strikingly set before us in the account given in the Acts of the Apostles, of the attempt made by certain Jewish exorcists to cure the demoniac at Ephesus.
It follows, therefore, that the exorcists of the ancient world were far from necessarily being a set of impostors, even on the supposition that possession was simple mania.
The following account of Canara devil-dancers and exorcists is given in Mr. Lavie's Manuscript History of Canara.
Their power as exorcists is exercised on any person supposed to be possessed with the devil.
But at last, after having played many such pranks, one of the exorcists of the Church discovered her to be a cheat, and showed that to be a wicked spirit which before was thought to be the Holy Ghost.
The exorcists were a recognised and respectable order in the Church.
The lawyer Ulpian, in the time of Tertullian, mentions the Order of Exorcists as well known.
Exorcists elicited from the girls that Louis Gauffridi, a powerful magician having authority over demons throughout Europe, had bewitched them.
Again, in the case of the girls of the parish of Landes, near Bayeux, in 1732, the orders given by the exorcists in Latin appeared to be well understood by the patients.
He thereupon ordered all the sorceresses, fortune-tellers, exorcists and geomancers to deliver up the books of their craft to the government and a great fire was made with them in front of the palace.
But this was just what theexorcists did not want: they knew Grandier's eloquence and courage, and a firm, unshaken denial at the moment of death would be most prejudicial to their interests.
Shouts of laughter rent the air, which had such an intimidating effect on Eazas and Cerberus that not all the adjurations of the exorcists could extract the slightest response.
Laubardemont and the otherexorcists should come out.
The Comte du Lude then came forward with his customary 'sang-froid', and begged the exorcists to perform before him.
But the other five will not depart, and when the holy exorcists (whom Heaven support!
He brought the exorcists a letter from the Archbishop of Tours, ordering them to edify his Lordship as much as possible.
Thence theExorcists went to the Church fixed upon for the Exorcisms, and the judges proceeded to the tribunal to continue the case; in the evening all returned to church for evensong.
The other exorcistsapplied the Holy Sacrament to the places where he felt the demons, sometimes to his chest, sometimes to his head.
It has been suggested that certain rites performed by the Panan and Malayan exorcists of Malabar are survivals, or imitations of human sacrifice.
Justin Martyr says that the Jewish exorcists used 'magic ties or knots.
But whatever may be the cause, rue was the plant of witchcraft; and Bishop Taylor speaks of its being used by exorcists to try the devil, and thence deriving its appellation 'herb of grace.
These would-be exorcists but irritated the demons by their vain attempts at ejecting them, and it is sometimes the case that efforts to cure social diseases only result in exacerbating them.
To readers andexorcists belongs the duty of catechizing and exorcizing, not, indeed, principally, but as ministers of the priest in these things.
Having soon finished that task, he returned to the man that brought him from his grave, and followed and tormented him worse than before, until he procured the help of other powerful exorcists who were more astute.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exorcists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
