A Guide to Grand-Jury Men

filthy Gadarenes The Gadarenes were the inhabitants of Gadara; in the Bible, Jesus cast demons out of a man and into a herd of swine belonging to these people., without God's leave and license, Matthew 8:31.

III. Just as they cannot do whatever they wish, so they cannot stay to vex or afflict anyone longer than He pleases: for He can bind the Devil by His Angels, Revelation 20:1; He can give man power over them, Mark 6:7; and when He commands, they must stop original: "give over", even if it is entirely against their will, Luke 4:35.

Witches can do nothing except as God permits.

If He thus rules over Devils, we may well think that He has control over His instruments, Witches and Sorcerers. He gave the Magicians and Sorcerers of Egypt leave for a while to work their feats; but when He pleased, He restrained them, and then they could do no more, Exodus 8:19. And did not the Witch Balaam confess, saying, though Balak would give him his house full of gold and silver, he could not go beyond the Word of the Lord?