Acts 16:18

“And this she did many days, etc.] As the apostle and his company passed to and from the oratory, being for that time at Lydia’s house; she followed them, and repeated the above words. This she was suffered to do, time after time; not that the apostle and his friends wanted such a testimony, or that it was of any use to them; but that the expulsion of the evil spirit might be more manliest, and more taken notice of: but Paul being grieved; at the unhappy condition the maid was in, being possessed with such a spirit: and that the people were so imposed upon and deluded by it; and that it should be thought that there was any combination and agreement between that and him: turned; himself to…”

“Paul being grieved--for the poor victim; grieved to see such power possessed by the enemy of man's salvation, and grieved to observe the malignant design with which this high testimony was borne to Christ.”

“But Paul, being grieved - Being molested, troubled, offended. Paul was grieved, probably: Because her presence was troublesome to him; Because it might be said that he was in alliance with her, and that his pretensions were just like hers; Because what she did was for the sake of gain, and was a base imposition; Because her state was one of bondage and delusion, and it was proper to free her from this demoniacal possession; and, Because the system under which she was acting was a part of a scheme of delusion and imposture, which had spread over a large portion of the pagan world, and which was then holding it in bondage. Throughout the Roman empire the inspiration of the priestesses of…”

“being: Act 14:13-15; Mar 1:25, Mar 1:26, Mar 1:34 I command: Act 3:6, Act 9:34, Act 19:12-17; Mar 9:25, Mar 9:26, Mar 16:17; Luk 9:1, Luk 10:17-19; Col 2:15 Acts 16:19”