Acts 8:9

9 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:

Ver. 9. Which beforetime, &c. ] Or, which was master of the magicians, προυπηρχεν . Sed quae traduntur de modo disceptationis Petri cum Simone Mago δραματικα potius quam ιστορικα esse videntur.

Bewitched the people ] Gr. εξιστων . Carried them out of themselves, as in an ecstasy, so that they were more his than their own.

Some great thing ] Such a blab the devil had blown up there, as a small wind may blow up a bubble.