{Came} ((8872)chonto). Imperfect middle, kept coming, one
after another. Even some of the believers were secretly under the
spell of these false spiritualists just as some Christians today
cherish private contacts with so-called occult powers through
mediums, seances, of which they are ashamed. {Confessing}
(exomologoumenoi). It was time to make a clean breast of it
all, to turn on the light, to unbosom their secret habits.
{Declaring their deeds} (anaggellontes tas praxeis aut(936e)).
Judgment was beginning at the house of God. The dupes (professing
believers, alas) of these jugglers or exorcists now had their
eyes opened when they saw the utter defeat of the tricksters who
had tried to use the name of Jesus without his power. The
boomerang was tremendous. The black arts were now laid bare in
their real character. Gentile converts had a struggle to shake
off their corrupt environment.