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Acts 13:10

"You who are full of all deceit and fraud" The Holy Spirit immediately labels Elymas as. fake and. fraud. He was not full of miraculous powers and wisdom, rather he was full of deception and falsehood. "You son of the devil" He is not. son of salvation, rather he is. son of condemnation. He is doing the devil's will and he has completely given himself to this realm of evil. Compare with John 8:44. "You enemy of all righteousness" One who stands opposed to God's attempt to bring righteousness to the proconsul. "His activities are opposed to both. man's becoming saved, and then living right" (Reese p. 465). "Will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?" Men and women like Elymas are constantly trying to pervert and twist God's truths for their own personal benefit. They do not want people hearing the truth, rather they are always trying to convince others that one can be right with God without really having to do what God says (2 Timothy 4:3). How many people today are unceasing in their efforts to pervert the straight ways of the Lord?

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Acts 13:10. _O FULL OF ALL SUBTILTY_] δολου, _Deceit_, pretending to supernatural powers without possessing any, and having only _cunning_ and _deceit_ as their substitutes. _AND-MISCHIEF_] ρα...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    O FULL OF ALL SUBTILTY AND ALL MISCHIEF - The word “subtilty” denotes “deceit and fraud,” and implies that he was practicing an imposition, and that he knew it. The word rendered “mischief” ῥᾳδιουργ...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    PART III The Witness to the Gentiles. The Apostle to the Gentiles; his Ministry and Captivity. Chapter s 13-28 CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The Divine Choice. Barnabas and Saul separated unto the work (Acts 1...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SUCCESSES IN CYPRUS. Acts 13:4. went down: the usual phrase in connexion with a seaport. SELEUCIA is the port of Antioch, about sixteen miles from it. Acts 13:5. Salamis is the eastern port of Cyprus...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Acts 13:1-3) Acts 13:1-52; Acts 14:1-28 tell the story of the first missionary journey. Paul and Barnabas set out from Antioch. Antioch was 15 miles up the River Orontes...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    So when they had been sent out by the Holy Spirit they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed away to Cyprus. When they were in Salamis they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogue of t...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ALL. Notice the three "alls". SUBTILTY. guile. Greek. _dolos._ Compare Matthew 26:4.Mark 14:1.Revelation 14:5. MISCHIEF. wickedness. Greek. _radiourgia._ Only here. Compare...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _enemy of all righteousness_ We may judge from this expression that St Paul recognized an earnest zeal for truth in the enquiries of the proconsul, and that his wrath against Elymas was not only for w...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ἘΧΘΡῈ ΠΆΣΗΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΎΝΗΣ, _enemy of all righteousness_. We may judge from this expression that St Paul recognised an earnest zeal for truth in the inquiries of the proconsul, and that his wrath against...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    Acts 13:1-12. BEGINNING OF SAUL’S FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY. HE VISITS CYPRUS...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ELYMAS, A FALSE PROPHET, A SORCERER ACTS 13:4-12:_ John Mark accompanied Paul and Barnabas as they went to Seleucia and then sailed to the island of Cyprus. In Salamis they began to preach God's mess...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1775 ELYMAS THE SORCERER STRUCK BLIND Acts 13:9. Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, and said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    AT PAPHOS. Acts 13:6-12. Acts 13:6 And when they had gone through the whole island unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus; Acts 13:7 who was wi...

  • Combined Bible Commentary

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    17 The death of James and the escape of Peter mark a crisis in the history of the kingdom proclamation. The power in Jerusalem passes out of the hands of the apostles into the hands of James, the Lord...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    13:10 Lord? (b-28) Possibly 'Jehovah.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ST. PAUL AS A MISSIONARY 1. Prophets] see on Acts 11:27. SIMEON THAT WAS CALLED NIGER] Niger was a Roman cognomen. LUCIUS OF CYRENE] doubtless one of those Cyrenians who first preached at Antioch (Act...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 13 THE *HOLY SPIRIT CHOOSES BARNABAS AND SAUL, 13:1-3 V1 There were some *prophets and teachers in the *church at Antioch. They were Barnabas,...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FULL OF ALL SUBTILTY AND ALL MISCHIEF. — The Greek of the second noun is found here only in the New Testament. Its primary meaning expresses simply “ease in working;” but this passed through the sever...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    πλήρης : for an interesting parallel in Plato _cf._ Wetstein, _in loco_, Plato, _Legg._, 908 D. ῥᾳδιουργίας : only here in N.T., _cf._ Acts 18:14, hellenistic, R.V. “villainy,” A.V. “mischief” (so Gen...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BEGINNING A MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN Acts 13:1-12 This is one of the greatest Chapter s in the New Testament, making a new departure in the ministry of the gospel, which henceforth begins to pass out to t...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The first most distinctly missionary movement sprang from Antioch, and was independent of all official initiation. A company of those in Antioch sent Saul and Barnabas, and it is declared immediately...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    Preaching at Paphos The company first went to Seleucia, which was the port city of Antioch. It was located about 16 miles downstream. They sailed approximately one hundred miles to Salamis, the larges...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (5) And said, O full of all subtilty and all (e) mischief, [thou] child of the devil, [thou] enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? (5) The sorcerer, w...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Son of the devil. Sharp language, when grounded on truth, may be used against those who hinder the conversion of others. St. John Chrysostom says, he was struck with this blindness only for a time, t...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    SATAN'S PREACHER AND THE CONVERSION OF THE PROCONSUL 6-12. Having traveled across the island of Cyprus throughout the whole length from east to west, everywhere preaching the Word, they arrive at Paph...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister. (6) And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they foun...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._O thou full of deceit. _It was not without a cause that Paul was thus hot and angry; for he had no hope to do any good if he should deal after some moderate and mild sort. We must always begin wit...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We come now to the beginning of the direct history of the work, new in some important respects, that is, connected with Paul's mission by the immediate intervention of the Holy Ghost. It is not now Ch...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND SAID, O FULL OF ALL SUBTLETY AND ALL MISCHIEF,.... Which may have regard both to his general character as a sorcerer, and a false prophet; in acting up to which he used much deceit and cunning amo...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, _thou_ child of the devil, _thou_ enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? Ver. 10. _O full of all sub...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then Saul, who also is called Paul_ Moved by an immediate inspiration of the _Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him_ Looked steadfastly on that impostor, and said, with just indignation, _O full of all sub...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    CHILD OF THE DEVIL; like him in temper and conduct. PERVERT; misrepresent, and turn men away from the truth....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND SAID, O FULL OF ALL SUBTLETY AND ALL MISCHIEF, THOU CHILD OF THE DEVIL, THOU ENEMY OF ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS, WILT THOU NOT CEASE TO PERVERT THE RIGHT WAYS OF THE LORD?...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The opposition of Elymas:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    From this time our attention is drawn particularly to the work of Saul, whose name is in this chapter changed to Paul, meaning "little," for one who is the most greatly used of God is, in his own esti...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OLBGrk; MISCHIEF; radiourgia signifies a facility or readiness in doing mischief, and that such who are given to sorcery are easily drawn to commit any kind of sin whatsoever. THOU CHILD OF THE DEVIL;...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Lactantius Divine Institutes Book V Another[21] Origen Commentary on John Book VI Hence the rebuke directed to a man of this kind and to all who resemble him, "Why pervert ye the right ways of the...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Acts 13:10 said G2036 (G5627) O G5599 full G4134 all G3956 deceit G1388 and G2532 all G3956 fraud...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him, and said, “O full of all guile and all villainy, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will y...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE MINISTRY OF PAUL AND BARNABAS RESULTS IN THE COUNTER-ATTACK OF SATAN AND THE GATHERING AT JERUSALEM (13:1-15:35). Leaving Antioch under the direct commissioning of the Holy Spirit, in a parallel c...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE EXPANSION OF THE WORD IN CYPRUS AND ASIA MINOR, WITH SATAN'S COUNTERATTACK BEING DEFEATED AT AN ASSEMBLY IN JERUSALEM, WHICH IS THEN FOLLOWED BY FURTHER MINISTRY (13:1-18:22). Jerusalem having for...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    OF ALL GUILE (παντος δολου). From δελω, to catch with bait, old word, already seen in Matthew 26:4; Mark 7:22; Mark 14:1. Paul denounces Elymas as a trickster.ALL VILLAINY (πασης ραιδιουργιας). La...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Acts 13:1. _The church that was at Antioch,_ which was counted one of the five apostolic churches. It is the true church by way of eminence, the synagogue having degenerated into a state of warfare wi...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:1 The Witness in Cyprus and Southern Galatia. Chapters Acts 13:1 and Acts 14:1 re

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 13:4. SELEUCIA.—“Civitas potens, sæpta muris neque in barbarum corrupta sed conditoris Seleucia retinens” (Tac, _An._, vi. 42). The port of Antioch, three miles west of the cit...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ACTS 13:1 _At Antioch., in the Church that was there _for _in the Church that was at Antioch, _A.V.; _prophets, _etc., for _certain prophets, _etc., A.V. and T.R.; _Barnabas, _etc., for _a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; Barnabas, Simeon that was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 3:8; 2 Chronicles 17:6; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Acts 18:25; Ac

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Mischief [ρ α δ ι ο υ ρ γ ι α ς]. Only here in New Testament. Originally, ease or facility in doing; hence readiness in turning the hand to anything, bad or good; and so recklessness, unscrupulousness...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    ELYMAS, PAULUS, AND PAUL Acts 13:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Barnabas and Saul and John Mark made up the party that journeyed together, as the Holy Ghost led them in the way. It was a strong party, and th...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    O full of all guile — As a false prophet, and all mischief — As a magician. Thou son of the devil — A title well suited to a magician; and one who not only was himself unrighteous, but laboured to kee...

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