Exorcism in the Book of Tobit“Sarah daughter of Raguel was reproached by her father’s ma
Exorcism in the Book of Tobit“Sarah daughter of Raguel was reproached by her father’s maids, because she had been given to seven husbands, and the evil demon Asmodeus had slain each of them before he had been with her as his wife.So the maids said to her, “Do you not know that you strangle your husbands?You already have had seven and have had no benefit from any of them.” – Tobit 3.7b-8 (ESV)“And he [Raphael] was sent to heal the two of them: to scale away the white films from Tobit’s eyes, to give Sarah daughter of Raguel in marriage to Tobia[h] son of Tobit and to bind Asmodeus the evil demon, because Tobia[h] was entitled to posses her.” – Tobit 3.17a“And they both continued on their way until they came near Ecbatana.Then the young man said to the angel, “Brother Azarias, of what use is the liver and heart and fall of the fish?” He replied “As for the heart and the liver, if a demon or evil spirits gives trouble to anyone, you make a smoke from these before the man or woman, and that person will never be troubled again.” – Tobit 6.6b-8“As he [Tobiah] went he remembered the words of Raphael, and he took the live ashes of incense and put the heart and liver of fish upon them and made a smoke.And when the demon smelled the odor he fled to the remotest parts to Egypt, and the angel bound him.” – Tobit 8.2-3Image: Jan Steen Tobias - Sarah, and Raphael bind the demon in the Book of Tobit -- source link
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