Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Acts 8:13
Then Simon himself believed also—Left without followers, he thinks it best to join the man who had fairly outstripped him, not without a touch of real conviction.
and . . . was baptized—What a light does this throw on what is called Baptismal Regeneration!
he continued with Philip—"was in constant attendance upon" him.
Acts 8:9-13
used sorcery—magical arts.
some great one . . . the great power of God—a sort of incarnation of divinity.
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