be delivered through the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have already seen that this is a gift of the Spirit, manifesting His presence, and operating by His power. Its efficient exercise is unthinkable, if not impossible, apart from a believer’s being full of the Holy Ghost, as in the case of Paul and the sorcerer (Acts 13:9). The word “discerning” (Greek, diakrisis) means a “judging through.” Robinson defines it as “a distinguishing, a discerning clearly.”