power in the city was enormous. The citizens “all gave heed” to this man “from the least to the greatest,” and they regarded him as God, “saying, This man is the great power of God.’ ” It could well be that the territorial spirit assigned to keep this city in darkness had attached itself to the Sorcerer. Underneath the whole thing we should recognize, as Susan Garrett says, that these “narrated encounters are not merely skirmishes between prophets or wonder-workers, but confrontations between Satan