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Acts 8:21
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19 saying, “Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
20 But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because ayou thought that bthe gift of God could be purchased with money!  
21 You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your aheart is not right in the sight of God.  
22 Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God aif perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.  
23 For I see that you are apoisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”  
24 Then Simon answered and said, a“Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may come upon me.”  
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Acts 8:21

Thou hast neither part - By purchase, nor lot - Given gratis, in this matter - This gift of God. For thy heart is not right before God - Probably St. Peter discerned this long before he had declared it; although it does not appear that God gave to any of the apostles a universal power of discerning the hearts of all they conversed with; any more than a universal power of healing all the sick they came near. This we are sure St. Paul had not; though he was not inferior to the chief of the apostles. Otherwise he would not have suffered the illness of Epaphroditus to have brought him so near to death, Philippians 2:25-27; nor have left so useful a fellow labourer as Trophimus sick at Miletus, II Timothy 4:20.


 
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