5. The best and most sound Expositors, both ancient, middle, and modern do expound the place as we have urged it, of which we shall name only two or three. St. _Chrysostom_ tells us this: _Operarii dolosi: nam operantur quidem, sed revellunt ea quæ sunt plantata: nam quoniam sciunt se aliter non posse esse acceptos, personâ veritatis sumptâ, erroris actum simulantes peragunt_. And a little after he saith thus: _Et multos Diabolus sic decipit, personâ in se acceptâ, & non factus Angelus lucis: sic illi personam Apostolorum circumferunt, non ipsam potentiam, neq; fortes sunt_. Dr. _Hammond_ gives the Paraphrase of this place thus: “For the truth is (he saith) these men that come to infuse false Doctrines into you, behave themselves as cunningly as they can, and do labour to imitate, and seem to do those very things, that we true Apostles do. And ’tis no unusual matter for Deceivers and Seducers to do so; for Satan himself pretends to do those things that the good Angels do, makes as if he meant you all kindness, when he comes to destroy you. And therefore ’tis not any thing strange, if seducing Hereticks, imployed by him, do imitate the actions of the Apostles of Christ; but according to the hypocrisie of their actions, so shall their ends be.” See _Theophylact_ and _Calvin_ upon the place. So that we positively conclude, that from this place of Scripture no real or essential transformations of Devils can be proved at all. [Sidenote: Philosophical Transactions, numb. 64.] [Sidenote: _Vid. Barthol._ _Cent._ 2. _Hist._ 100. _pag._ 319. _Microgr. obser._ 17. _pag._ 107.]