Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 8:10
See notes on verse 6
See notes on verse 6
ACTS 8:10 kaloume,nh {A} The awkward kaloume,nh is omitted by the later Byzantine text; it is replaced by legome,nh in several minuscules. Klostermann thought that Mega,lh was a transliteration of th...
Verse Acts 8:10. _THIS MAN IS THE GREAT POWER OF GOD._] That is, he is invested with it, and can command and use it. They certainly did not believe him to be _God_; but they thought him to be endued w...
THE GREAT POWER OF GOD - Probably this means only that they believed that he was “invested with” the power of God, not that they supposed he was really the Great God....
PART II The Witness to Samaria. Saul's Conversion and Peter's Witness in Caesarea. Chapter s 8-12 CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The first great persecution (Acts 8:1)._ 2. The preaching of the scattered believ...
SIMON MAGUS. This man had been for some time at Samaria. This is the only account of him in NT; but in the early Fathers and in Christian legend he occupies much space, and he has been the occasion du...
THE FIRST OF THE MARTYRS (Acts 7:54-60 ; Acts 8:1) 8:1 As they listened to this their very hearts were torn with vexation and they gnashed their teeth at him. But he was full of the Holy Spirit and h...
Those who were scattered abroad went throughout the country telling the message of the good news. Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. The crowds listened attentively t...
FROM. Greek. _apo_. App-104. LEAST, &C. Literally little unto great. THIS MAN. This one. POWER. Greek. _dunamis._ App-172. GOD App-98. He thus assumed to be the Divine Logos. Compare 1 Corinthians...
_This man is the great power of God_ The A. V. translates the _Tex. Rec_., but the best MSS. give, _This man is the power of God that is called great_. We can see from the language of the N. T. that ...
PHILIP’S PREACHING IN SAMARIA AND ITS EFFECT...
Ἡ ΚΑΛΟΥΜΈΝΗ ΜΕΓΆΛΗ, with אABCDE. _Vulg_. has ‘quæ vocatur magna.’ 10. ἈΠῸ ΜΙΚΡΟΥ͂ ἝΩΣ ΜΕΓΆΛΟΥ, _from the least to the greatest_, i.e. one and all. The expression is common in the LXX. Thus God smites...
_THE CONVERSION OF THE SAMARITANS ACTS 8:5-25:_ Philip went to Samaria and preached Christ and the gospel of His kingdom. (Acts 8:12) Signs and wonders confirmed the message Philip preached. As the go...
ΠΡΟΣΕΪ́ΧΟΝ _impf. ind. act., см._ Acts 8:6. ΚΑΛΟΥΜΈΝΗ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΚΑΛΈΩ (G2564) звать;pass, носить имя. Part, показывает, что _adj._ ΜΕΓΆΛΗ является титулом, с Ή ΔΎΝΑΜΙΣ ΤΟΫ́ ΘΕΟΎ как...
THIS MAN IS THE GREAT POWER OF GOD— "The long expected Messiah, and, if we may so speak, Omnipotence itself incarnate, or he could never do such wonderful things." Doddridge. If we believe Justin Mart...
B. THE FIRST WORK OF PHILIP. Acts 8:5-13. Acts 8:5 And Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed unto them the Christ. Acts 8:6 And the multitudes gave heed with one accord unto the...
To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. TO WHOM THEY ALL GAVE HEED, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST. [Lachmann and Tischendorf leave o...
4 We now enter the second cycle of the kingdom testimony. Jerusalem and Judea have not heeded its proclamation. It is now offered to Samaria, then it will go to the limits of the earth, and even to th...
8:10 This (a-13) Lit. 'This one.'...
THE GREAT POWER OF GOD] RV 'that power of God which is called Great,' i.e. the chief emanation from the Deity, and so entitled to divine worship. According to Justin, he went even further, claiming to...
PHILIP IN SAMARIA. SIMON MAGUS The graphic details of the ministry of Philip which follow, were doubtless obtained from Philip himself. St. Luke stayed at his house at Cæsarea, and made the acquaintan...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 8 SAUL *PERSECUTES THE CHRISTIANS, 8:1-4 V1 Saul approved of Stephen’s murder. That same day, the Christians in *Jerusalem suffered very much....
TO WHOM THEY ALL GAVE HEED, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST. — The ready acceptance of the claims of the pretender, may, in part, be traced to the impression made by the presence of “the Christ, the Sa...
Acts 8:9 CHAPTER 17 SIMON MAGUS AND THE CONVERSION OF SAMARIA. Acts 8:5; Acts 8:9 THE object of the earlier part of this book of the Acts is to trace the steady, gradual development of the Church...
ἡ δύναμις το͂υ Θεοῦ ἡ μεγάλη : in R.V. the power of God which is called (καλουμένη) Great, see above, critical notes. T.R. may have omitted the word because it appeared unsuitable to the context; but...
FRUITS OF THE SCATTERED SEED Acts 8:1-13 Evidently Stephen was beloved outside the precincts of the Church, for it would seem that the devout men who lamented his early death and carried his poor bod...
The popular outburst against Christianity evidenced in the martyrdom of Stephen was general. Members of the Church at Jerusalem were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. How dark the day seemed to...
Philip Preaching in Samaria Philip, who was one of the seven, went to the city of Samaria. Because the Samaritans were of mixed descent coming from the intermarriage of Jews and Gentiles, the Jews reg...
_This man is the power of God, which is called (that is, which is truly) great. Simon pretended to be God, and the great God. See St. Irenæus, lib. i. chap. 20._...
EVANGELIZATION OF SAMARIA 5-25. Philip, a bright, uncultured layman, sanctified in the Pentecostal revival, _“filled with the Spirit and wisdom,”_ rendering him eligible to the office of deacon, was t...
But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: (10) To whom they all gave h...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
10.For the surname, _great power_, tendeth to this end, that whatsoever should otherwise be divine might wax vile through this greatness. Therefore the power of Christ appeareth hereby more plainly, i...
Saul was present at Stephen's death, and consenting to it. [14] This is the end of the first phase of the assembly of God its history in immediate connection with Jerusalem and the Jews, as the centre...
TO WHOM THEY ALL GAVE HEED,.... Were not only attentive to the strange things he did, and to the wonderful things he gave out concerning himself; but they believed what he said and did as real things,...
To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. Ver. 10. _This man is the great power of God_] Epiphanius saith that this varlot (knave) called...
_But there was_, &c. At the time when the gospel was thus brought to them by Philip, a man was there, _called Simon, which before- time in the same city used sorcery_ Greek, _had been_ μαγευων, _using...
THE GREAT POWER OF GOD; endowed with supernatural power....
TO WHOM THEY ALL GAVE HEED, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST, SAYING, THIS MAN IS THE GREAT POWER OF GOD....
The conversion of Simon:...
As a wild beast tasting blood, the Jews were the more inflamed by the martyrdom of Stephen to greatly persecute the Church of God at Jerusalem. For this reason believers were scattered through Judea a...
TO WHOM THEY ALL GAVE HEED, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST, SAYING, " THIS MAN IS THE GREAT POWER OF GOD. " 1. Many looked to Simon as some great man of God. They had been rejected by Jerusalem and c...
to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is called Great. 'FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST'-'people of all classes' (Wey); 'All classes f...
5-13 As far as the gospel prevails, evil spirits are dislodged, particularly unclean spirits. All inclinations to the lusts of the flesh which war against the soul are such. Distempers are here named...
FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST; showing how general their mispersuasion was; and no condition is exempt from the grossest mistakes, if not prevented by the grace of God. THIS MAN IS THE GREAT POWER OF...
Origen Against Celsus Book VI Such were Simon, the Magus of Samaria, and Dositheus, who was a native of the same place; since the former gave out that he was the power of God that is called great,[58...
Acts 8:10 whom G3739 all G3956 heed G4337 (G5707) from G575 least G3398 to G2193 greatest G3173 saying...
‘But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who before that time in the city used sorcery, and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that he himself was some great one, to whom they all gave heed,...
THE CONTINUING MINISTRY OF PETER (9:32-11:18). In preparing for the Gentile ministry of Paul, a preparation which has included what we have just considered concerning his conversion and ministry to Je...
Acts 8:10. TO WHOM THEY ALL GAVE HEED. Men in that age were peculiarly liable to be deluded by the pretensions of false prophets, as Neander well observes: ‘At that time an indefinite longing after a...
THAT POWER OF GOD WHICH IS CALLED GREAT (η Δυναμις του θεου η καλουμενη Μεγαλη). Apparently here already the oriental doctrine of emanations or aeons so rampant in the second century. This "power...
Acts 8:4. _Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord ga...
Stephen had been stoned to death; but with his latest breath he prayed for his murderers. Then this chapter begins: Acts 8:1. _And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a gre...
CONTENTS: Saul persecuting Christians. The first missionaries. The case of Simon, the sorcerer. Philip and the Ethiopian. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Saul, Stephen, Philip, Simon, apostles,...
Acts 8:1. _At that time there was a great persecution against the church._ With regard to this very tremendous storm which suddenly burst on the infant church, Cardinal Baronius, in his Ecclesiastical...
HE IS THAT POWER OF GOD. They believed God worked through him to do these things....
_But there was a certain man called Simon _ SIMON THE MAGIAN UNMASKED AND PUT TO SHAME This Simon was the first heretic in the Christian Church, the first to claim its fellowship while out of sympat...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 8:9. SIMON.—Not the Cyprian Jew of that name whom, according to Josephus (_Ant._, XX. vii. 2), Felix afterwards employed to persuade Drusilla to leave for him her husband. King...
EXPOSITION ACTS 8:1 _There arose on that day _for _at that time there was, _A.V._; in _for _at, _A.V. SAUL WAS CONSENTING TO HIS DEATH. St. Paul's repeated reference to this sad episode in his life i...
We are introduced now to one of the chief persecutors. A zealous young Jew, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, whose name is Saul. And he was standing by, consenting to the death of Stephen, holding the coa...
1 Corinthians 1:24; 2 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Peter 2:2; Ephesians 4:14;...
The great power of God. The best texts add hJ kaloumenh, which is called, and render that power of God which ms called great. They believed that Simon was an impersonated power of God, which, as the h...
PHILIP THE EVANGELIST Acts 8:10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Philip was a man mighty in word and in deed. He wrought miracles and preached Christ, The people may have talked and marveled at the many palsied a...