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All kinds of witches and warlocks came out of the woodwork with their books of spells and incantations and made a huge bonfire of them. Someone estimated their worth at fifty thousand silver coins.
20
In such ways it became evident that the Word of the Master was now sovereign and prevailed in Ephesus.
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