VISION AND BLINDNESS IN CYPRUS. JOHANN SPANGENBERG: The magician becomes blind; the proconsul becomes able to see. Unbelief makes the magician blind. Belief makes the proconsul able to see. For when the proconsul saw this event, he believed and was astonished by the teaching of the Lord. BRIEF EXEGESIS OF ACTS 13:11–12.18 WHAT SHOULD WE LEARN FROM PAUL’S CURSE ON ELYMAS? JOHANN SPANGENBERG: Through this Paul wants to show that God’s physical punishment is not always eternal but rather temporal,
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