Acts 8:11

And to him they had regard, because for a long time he had amazed them with sorceries.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
He had bewitched them with his sorceries, or magic: he had put them out of their wits, turned their heads, charmed them, stupefied them. (Witham)

John Chrysostom

AD 407
And yet there ought to have been not one demoniac there, seeing that of a long time he had been bewitching them with sorceries: but if there were many demoniacs, many palsied, these pretences were not truth. But Philip here by his word also won them over, discoursing concerning the kingdom of Christ.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
And Simon, it says, being baptized, continued with Philip Acts 8:13: not for faith's sake, but in order that he might become such (as he).

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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