Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 12:28

28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

Luke hath the same Chap. 11.20. only for the Spirit of God, he hath the Power of God. By the Kingdom of God, he here meaneth the coming of the Messiah, which is so called▪ Dan. 2, 44. The time is come, when the Lord begins his Kingdom of Grace. Setting up his King upon his Holy Hill of Zion, Psal. 2.6. whence we may observe, that Christ giveth in his casting out of Devils, by a Divine Power, as an Argument to prove himself the Messiah; for saith he, By this you may know, the Kingdom of God is come among[illegible: 1 letter]t you, that there is one come among you, who by the Finger, Power, or Spirit of God, calls out Devils. But where had the force of this Argument been, if the Jews had had Exorcists, whom God had so Honoured, tho Vagabonds, as to cast out Devils upon their calling upon the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, while in the mean time they derided, and contemned Christ?