John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 8:10
10 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 himself God the Father and the Son, and his harlot Helena (a horrible thing to be spoken) the Holy Ghost. Justin Martyr witnesseth, that he had near unto Rome a statue erected, with this inscription, Simoni Deo sancto, To Simon the holy God. Prodigious boldness and baseness! read more
The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 8:9-24
Acts 8:9-24But there was a certain man called Simon Simon the Magian unmasked and put to shameThis Simon was the first heretic in the Christian Church, the first to claim its fellowship while out of sympathy with its fundamental truths.His mistakes were many and grievous.1. He began with an unscrupulous ambition. No sooner had Peter and John begun to confer the gifts of spiritual power by the laying on of hands than Simon saw that his own juggleries were cast into the shade. All that he... read more