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And in this regard are the Arts that tend hereunto called ^uCurious Arts; the books whereof the good Christians at Ephesus that had professed them before, burnt afterward in token and testimony of their renunciation and condemnation of them, upon their conversion to Christ. Which place of the Evangelist howsoever it may be understood of ^*some other curious kind of craft or mystery tending to the furtherance of Idolatry: yet ^xmost interpreters, or all generally, expound it of this kind of curious Arts applied to Divination; which (as Heathen stories also testify) were so frequent at Ephesus, and so famous, that the ^ySpells of Ephesus were become a common by-word.

And in this regard are the Arts that tend hereunto called ^uCurious Arts; the bookes whereof the good Christians at Ephesus that had professed them before, burnt afterward in token and testimonie of their renunciation and condemnation of them, vpon their conuersion to Christ. Which place of the Euangelist howsoeuer it may bee vnderstoode of ^*some other curious kind of craft or mysterie tending to the furtherance of Idolatrie: yet ^xmost interpreters, or all generally, expound it of this kinde of curious Arts applied to Diuination; which (as Heathen stories also testifie) were so frequent at Ephesus, and so famous, that the ^ySpels of Ephesus were become a common by-word.

1. u[Greek or Hebrew]. Act. 19.19.