Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 8:9
A certain man — using magic — So there was such a thing as witchcraft once! In Asia at least, if not in Europe or America.
A certain man — using magic — So there was such a thing as witchcraft once! In Asia at least, if not in Europe or America.
ACTS 8:9 me,gan Struck by the syntax of the expression le,gwn ei=nai, tina e`auto.n me,gan, several scholars have proposed emendations. Valckenaer, van de Sande Bakhuyzen, and Blass 177 regard me,gan...
Verse Acts 8:9. _A CERTAIN MAN CALLED SIMON_] In ancient ecclesiastical writers, we have the strangest account of this man; they say that he pretended to be the _Father_, who gave the law to Moses; t...
BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN CALLED SIMON - The fathers have written much respecting this man, and have given strange accounts of him; but nothing more is certainly known of him than is stated in this...
PART II The Witness to Samaria. Saul's Conversion and Peter's Witness in Caesarea. Chapter s 8-12 CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The first great persecution (Acts 8:1)._ 2. The preaching of the scattered believ...
SIMON MAGUS. This man had been for some time at Samaria. This is the only account of him in NT; but in the early Fathers and in Christian legend he occupies much space, and he has been the occasion du...
Those who were scattered abroad went throughout the country telling the message of the good news. Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. The crowds listened attentively t...
THE FIRST OF THE MARTYRS (Acts 7:54-60 ; Acts 8:1) 8:1 As they listened to this their very hearts were torn with vexation and they gnashed their teeth at him. But he was full of the Holy Spirit and h...
CERTAIN. Greek. _tis._ App-123. CALLED. Literally by name BEFORETIME... USED SORCERY Literally before was (Greek. prouparcho Luke 23:12) practicing magic (Greek.mageuo, to act as. magos. Only here. C...
_a certain man, called Simon_ From the Gk. word _magos_=sorcerer or magician, this man is usually spoken of as Simon Magus. According to Justin Martyr (_Apol_. i. 26) he was born at Gitton, a village...
ΣΊΜΩΝ. From the verb μαγεύω used in describing the arts of Simon, he is usually spoken of as Simon _Magus_, i.e. the sorcerer or magician. According to Justin Martyr (_Apol_. I. 26) he was born at Git...
PHILIP’S PREACHING IN SAMARIA AND ITS EFFECT...
_THE CONVERSION OF THE SAMARITANS ACTS 8:5-25:_ Philip went to Samaria and preached Christ and the gospel of His kingdom. (Acts 8:12) Signs and wonders confirmed the message Philip preached. As the go...
ΠΡΟΥΠΉΡΧΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΥΠΆΡΧΩ (G4391) быть раньше, существовать прежде, ΜΑΓΕΎΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΜΑΓΕΎΩ (G3096) практиковать магию. Это был странствующий оккультист, который имел не...
USED SORCERY, &C.— _Had practised magical arts, and astonished the people._ Heylin and Doddridge. Some think the word Μαγευων to be entirely of the same signification with the word Μαγος, and intended...
B. THE FIRST WORK OF PHILIP. Acts 8:5-13. Acts 8:5 And Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed unto them the Christ. Acts 8:6 And the multitudes gave heed with one accord unto the...
See notes on verse 6...
But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: BUT THERE WAS, [ proupee...
4 We now enter the second cycle of the kingdom testimony. Jerusalem and Judea have not heeded its proclamation. It is now offered to Samaria, then it will go to the limits of the earth, and even to th...
SIMON] Justin Martyr (150 a.d.), himself a Samaritan, says that Simon belonged to the Samaritan village of Gitto. He is regarded as the father of heresy, and is the reputed author of a Gnostic work ca...
PHILIP IN SAMARIA. SIMON MAGUS The graphic details of the ministry of Philip which follow, were doubtless obtained from Philip himself. St. Luke stayed at his house at Cæsarea, and made the acquaintan...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 8 SAUL *PERSECUTES THE CHRISTIANS, 8:1-4 V1 Saul approved of Stephen’s murder. That same day, the Christians in *Jerusalem suffered very much....
BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN, CALLED SIMON. — The man who is thus brought before us in a brief episode, occupies a prominent place in the history and the legends of the Apostolic Church. For the presen...
Acts 8:9 CHAPTER 17 SIMON MAGUS AND THE CONVERSION OF SAMARIA. Acts 8:5; Acts 8:9 THE object of the earlier part of this book of the Acts is to trace the steady, gradual development of the Church...
Σίμων : very few of the most advanced critics now dismiss Simon as an unhistorical character, or deny that the account before us contains at least some historical _data;_ see McGiffert's note, _Aposto...
FRUITS OF THE SCATTERED SEED Acts 8:1-13 Evidently Stephen was beloved outside the precincts of the Church, for it would seem that the devout men who lamented his early death and carried his poor bod...
The popular outburst against Christianity evidenced in the martyrdom of Stephen was general. Members of the Church at Jerusalem were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. How dark the day seemed to...
Philip Preaching in Samaria Philip, who was one of the seven, went to the city of Samaria. Because the Samaritans were of mixed descent coming from the intermarriage of Jews and Gentiles, the Jews reg...
(5) But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used (b) sorcery, and (c) bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: (5) Christ over...
EVANGELIZATION OF SAMARIA 5-25. Philip, a bright, uncultured layman, sanctified in the Pentecostal revival, _“filled with the Spirit and wisdom,”_ rendering him eligible to the office of deacon, was t...
But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: (10) To whom they all gave h...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
9._A certain man named Simon. _This was such a let that it might seem that the gospel could have no passage to come unto the Samaritans; for the minds of them all were bewitched with Simon’s jugglings...
Saul was present at Stephen's death, and consenting to it. [14] This is the end of the first phase of the assembly of God its history in immediate connection with Jerusalem and the Jews, as the centre...
BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN CALLED SIMON,.... Who, as Justin Martyr f says, was a Samaritan, and of a village called Gitton; and so a Jewish writer g calls him Simeon, השמרוני, "the Samaritan", a wiza...
But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: Ver. 9. _Which beforetime,...
_But there was_, &c. At the time when the gospel was thus brought to them by Philip, a man was there, _called Simon, which before- time in the same city used sorcery_ Greek, _had been_ μαγευων, _using...
SORCERY; deceptive arts, pretending to foretell future events. BEWITCHED; amazed them, filled them with astonishment. It is the word which in verse Acts 8:13 is translated wondered....
BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN, CALLED SIMON, WHICH BEFORE TIME IN THE SAME CITY USED SORCERY, AND BEWITCHED THE PEOPLE OF SAMARIA, GIVING OUT THAT HE HIMSELF WAS SOME GREAT ONE;...
The conversion of Simon:...
As a wild beast tasting blood, the Jews were the more inflamed by the martyrdom of Stephen to greatly persecute the Church of God at Jerusalem. For this reason believers were scattered through Judea a...
BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN CALLED SIMON, WHO PREVIOUSLY PRACTICED SORCERY IN THE CITY AND ASTONISHED THE PEOPLE OF SAMARIA, CLAIMING THAT HE WAS SOMEONE GREAT, 1. Simon the Sorcerer - 2. SORCERY - S...
But there was. certain man, Simon by name, who beforetime in the city used sorcery, and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: 'CERTAIN MAN'-A real person. 'SIMON...
5-13 As far as the gospel prevails, evil spirits are dislodged, particularly unclean spirits. All inclinations to the lusts of the flesh which war against the soul are such. Distempers are here named...
USED SORCERY; magical enchantments, as a wizard. BEWITCHED THE PEOPLE; caused them, as men in an ecstasy, to be amazed at and afraid of him. SOME GREAT ONE; as if he had been God, or at least had some...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I Simon the Samaritan was that magician of whom Luke, the disciple and follower of the apostles, says, "But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who beforetime used m...
Acts 8:9 But G1161 certain G5100 man G435 called G3686 Simon G4613 previously G4391 (G5707) sorcery G3096 ...
THE CONTINUING MINISTRY OF PETER (9:32-11:18). In preparing for the Gentile ministry of Paul, a preparation which has included what we have just considered concerning his conversion and ministry to Je...
‘But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who before that time in the city used sorcery, and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that he himself was some great one, to whom they all gave heed,...
Acts 8:9. A CERTAIN MAN, CALLED SIMON, WHICH BEFORETIME IN THE SAME CITY NEED SORCERY. We have here a description of the first collision between the unreality and imposture in the outside world, and t...
SIMON (Σιμων). One of the common names (Josephus, _Ant_. XX. 7, 2) and a number of messianic pretenders had this name. A large number of traditions in the second and third centuries gathered round t...
Acts 8:4. _Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord ga...
Stephen had been stoned to death; but with his latest breath he prayed for his murderers. Then this chapter begins: Acts 8:1. _And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a gre...
CONTENTS: Saul persecuting Christians. The first missionaries. The case of Simon, the sorcerer. Philip and the Ethiopian. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Saul, Stephen, Philip, Simon, apostles,...
Acts 8:1. _At that time there was a great persecution against the church._ With regard to this very tremendous storm which suddenly burst on the infant church, Cardinal Baronius, in his Ecclesiastical...
A MAN NAMED SIMON. A magician, who had built fame for himself through his use of the magic arts. HE CLAIMED. He claimed to be more than human, with supernatural powers....
_But there was a certain man called Simon _ SIMON THE MAGIAN UNMASKED AND PUT TO SHAME This Simon was the first heretic in the Christian Church, the first to claim its fellowship while out of sympat...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 8:9 On ancient MAGIC, see note on 13:6. ⇐...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 8:9. SIMON.—Not the Cyprian Jew of that name whom, according to Josephus (_Ant._, XX. vii. 2), Felix afterwards employed to persuade Drusilla to leave for him her husband. King...
EXPOSITION ACTS 8:1 _There arose on that day _for _at that time there was, _A.V._; in _for _at, _A.V. SAUL WAS CONSENTING TO HIS DEATH. St. Paul's repeated reference to this sad episode in his life i...
We are introduced now to one of the chief persecutors. A zealous young Jew, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, whose name is Saul. And he was standing by, consenting to the death of Stephen, holding the coa...
2 Peter 2:18; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; 2 Timothy 3:2; 2 Timothy 3:5;...
Used sorcery [μ α γ ε υ ω ν]. Only here in New Testament. One of the wizards so numerous throughout the East at that time, and multiplied by the general expectation of a great deliverer and the spread...
THE GREAT PERSECUTION Acts 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We approach today the scenes that immediately followed Stephen's death. Satan, encouraged by Stephen's martyrdom, thinks to press on with fire and...
An account is here given of one of Philip's auditors at Samaria, Simon Magus by name, or Simon the sorcerer,. vile man, the blackest Ethiopian that ever baptismal water wet or washed. Notorious for so...