10:8⁠–⁠9) is called “the word of faith”; that is, as is there expressed, the doctrine of Christ come, and raised from the dead. Also ( Matt. 13:19), “When anyone heareth the word of the kingdom,” that is, the doctrine of the kingdom taught by Christ. Again, the same word is said (Acts 12:24) “to grow and to be multiplied”; which to understand of the evangelical doctrine is easy, but of the voice or speech of God, hard and strange. In the same sense (1 Tim. 4:1) the “doctrine of devils” signifieth not the words of any devil, but the doctrine of heathen men concerning “demons,” and those phantasms which they worshipped as gods.