Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 8:24

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 8:24 - 8:24

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 8:24 - 8:24

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24. ὅπως μηδὲν ἐπέλθῃ κ.τ.λ., that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me. Simon shews from the character of his petition that he is not moved by a true spirit of repentance. He utters no word of sorrow for the evil of his thought, but only petitions that he may suffer no punishment. Yet we can see that he had not taken the expression of St Peter in Act 8:20 as a curse invoked upon him by the Apostle, but only as a declaration of the anger of God and of the certainty of a penalty upon the wilful continuance in such sin. His entreaty may be compared with that oft-repeated petition of Pharaoh to Moses (Exo 8:8; Exo 8:28; Exo 9:28; Exo 10:17), ‘Intreat the Lord for me,’ extorted by fear and followed by no change of conduct.