Acts 8:9-24
9-13. used sorcery--magical arts. some great one ... the great power of God--a sort of incarnation of divinity. 14-17. the apostles ... sent Peter and John--showing that they regarded Peter as no more than their own equal. 18-24. offered them money--Hence the term simony, to denote trafficking in sacred things, but chiefly the purchase of ecclesiastical offices.
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