{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030110.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030110.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030110.htm","text":"Why may not those who go into the temptations of the show become accessible also to evil spirits? We have the case of the woman\u2014the Lord Himself is witness\u2014who went to the theatre, and came back possessed. In the outcasting, 369 accordingly, when the unclean creature was upbraided with having dared to attack a believer, he firmly replied, 370 \u201cAnd in truth I did it most righteously, for I found her in my domain.\u201d Another case, too, is well known, in which a woman had been hearing a tragedian, and on the very night she saw in her sleep a linen cloth\u2014the actor\u2019s name being mentioned at the same time with strong disapproval\u2014and five days after that woman was no more. How many other undoubted proofs we have had in the case of persons who, by keeping company with the devil in the shows, have fallen from the Lord! For no one can serve two masters. 371 What fellowship has light with darkness, life with death? 372\n[The exorcism. For the exorcism in Baptism, see Bunsen, Hippol. iii. 19.]\n90:370\nSee Neander\u2019s explanation in Kaye, p. xxiii. But, let us observe the entire simplicity with which our author narrates a sort of incident known to the apostles. Acts xvi. 16.]\n90:371 90:372","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part I: Chapter...","type":"page"}