Greater Men and Women of the Bible by James Hastings: 617. Simon the Sorcerer

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Greater Men and Women of the Bible by James Hastings: 617. Simon the Sorcerer

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Simon the Sorcerer

Literature

Dykes, J. O., From Jerusalem to Antioch (1875), 247.

Furneaux, W. M., The Acts of the Apostles (1912), 109.

Goulburn, E. M., The Acts of the Deacons (1867), 234.

Hobhouse, W., The Spiritual Standard (1896), 31.

Hooton, W. S., Turning-Points in the Primitive Church (1910), 62.

Luckock, H. M., Footprints of the Apostles as traced by Saint Luke in the Acts, i. (1905) 204.

Maclaren, A., The Acts of the Apostles (Bible Class Expositions) (1894), 82.

Maurice, F. D., The Acts of the Apostles (1894), 96.

Moore, A. L., God is Love (1894), 266.

Potter, H. C., Sermons of the City (1880), 234.

Rackham, R. B., The Acts of the Apostles (1901), 112.

Stokes, G. T., The Acts of the Apostles (Expositor's Bible), i. (1891) 346.

Thorne, H., Notable Sayings of the Great Teacher, 90.

Woods, H. G., At the Temple Church (1911), 56.

Dictionary of the Bible, iv. (1902) 520 (A. C. Headlam).

Preachers' Monthly, vii. (1884) 39 (H. R. Raymond).

Simon The Sorcerer

There was a certain man, Simon by name, which beforetime in the city used sorcery, and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one.- Act_8:9.

Simon of Samaria, Simon Magus as he is generally called, is the central figure of an episode in the Acts which, brief as it is, has attracted men's attention in almost every age of Christianity. Although only once mentioned in the New Testament, he had a considerable place in the Christian literature of the first three centuries. We may leave, for the present, the legends which gathered round his name, and consider the New Testament incident-the meeting of Simon with St. Peter.