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1. Cyrpian, 3rd. century, after explaining that evil spirits inspire false prophets and deliver oracles by mixing truth with falsehood to prove their claim, Cyprian added, “Nevertheless, these evil spirits adjured by the living God immediately obey us, submit to us, acknowledge our power, and are forced to come out of the bodies they possess.”

2. Tertullian, 3rd. Century, in his address to the Roman Senate said: “Let a person be brought before your tribunals who is plainly under demoniacal possession. The wicked spirit, bidden to speak by a follower of Christ, will as readily make the truthful confession that he is a demon, as elsewhere he has falsely asserted that he is a god. Or, if you will, let there be produced one of the god-possessed, as they are supposed, if they do not confess, in their fear of lying to a Christian, that they are demons, then and there shed the blood of that most impudent follower of Christ.

“All the authority and power we have over them is from our naming the Name of Christ and recalling to their memory the woes with which God threatens them at the hand of Christ their Judge, and which they expect one day to overtake them. Fearing Christ in God and God in Christ, they become subject to the servants of God and Christ. So at one touch and breathing, overwhelmed by their thought and realization of those judgment fires, they leave at our command the bodies they have entered, unwilling and distressed, and before your very eyes, put to an open shame.”

3. Justin Martyr, 110-165, said to the Roman Senate in his second apology, “Numberless demoniacs throughout the whole world and in your city, many of our Christian men--exorcizing them in the name of Jesus Christ who was crucified under Pontius Pilate--have healed and do heal, through they could not be cured by all other exorcists, and those who use incantations and drugs.”