Speaking of the drug that transforms him into Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll says in chapter 10 that it, “shook the doors of the prison-house of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.” Stevenson had obviously read ACTS 16:16-33. That Biblical passage confirms that while in Philippi, Paul cast a demon out of a female slave. Her masters, though, became angry that they could no longer make money with their fortune-telling slave, and that their “hope of profit was gone,” stirred up the city and its leaders against Paul and Silas. The two evangelists are arrested, beaten and put in prison. Paul, Silas and others are freed when God causes an earthquake to open all the cell doors to open and the bonds of all the prisoners to be loosed, ultimately leading to the conversion of the jailor and his entire family.
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