We may leave, for the present, the legends which gathered round his name, and consider the New Testament incident-the meeting of Simon with St. Although only once mentioned in the New Testament, he had a considerable place in the Christian literature of the first three centuries. Simon of Samaria, Simon Magus as he is generally called, is the central figure of an episode in the Acts which, brief as it is, has attracted men’s attention in almost every age of Christianity. There was a certain man, Simon by name, which beforetime in the city used sorcery, and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one.-Acts 8:9. G., At the Temple Church (1911), 56.ĭictionary of the Bible, iv.
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