Simon magus Sentence Examples

The name is taken from Simon Magus.

And this decision is not affected by the fact that in certain Gnostic sects figured historical personages such as Simon Magus and Menander.

To this class also fundamentally belong the Simoniani, who have included the probably historical figure of Simon Magus in a system which seems to be closely connected with those we have mentioned, especially if we look upon the " Helena " of this system as a mythical figure.

Here Simon Magus was encountered.

The prime exponent of the spurious religion is Simon Magus.

First it is interesting to note that Simon Magus was.

Notwithstanding his own success as a magician Simon Magus was amazed in his turn at the superior power of Christianity.

There is no reason for identifying the Simon Magus of Acts with the Simon, also a magician, who was a friend of Felix, and employed by him to tempt Drusilla away from her husband Azizus, the king of the Emesi.

But Justin Martyr was decidedly weak in history, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that he may have confused the Simon of Acts with a heretical leader of the same name who lived much nearer to his own time, especially as this other Simon also had a great reputation for magic. A full century must have elapsed between the conversion of Simon Magus to Christianity and the earliest date possible (which is the one that we have adopted) for the composition of Justin Martyr's First Apology.

But having a mind void of historical perspective he identified this Simon with Simon Magus.

Dr George Salmon brought light into darkness by distinguishing between Simon of Gitta and the original Simon Magus.

But before such an amalgam of paganism and Christianity could be propounded, it is evident that Christianity must have been for some little time before the world, and that the system cannot possibly be traced back to Simon Magus.

Tertullian is fond of alluding to Simon Magus.

The 1 The account given by Irenaeus should be compared with what is said of Simon Magus in the Clementine Homilies, ii.

The triumph of Simon Magus was terminated on the arrival of Peter and Paul at Rome.

Such is the form assumed by the legend of Simon Magus about the middle of the 4th century.

The introduction of Pauline features, however, into the representation of Simon Magus is merely incidental.

Just as whatever Plato approves is put into the mouth of Socrates, so whatever the author of the Homilies condemns is put into the mouth of Simon Magus.

But while thus seeking for hidden meanings, are we not in danger of missing what lies on the surface, namely, that the Simon Magus of the Clementine romance is a portrait of Simon of Gitta, after he had been confused with the Simon of Acts?

We cannot, therefore, agree with Dr Salmon's remark that the only reason why Justin attributed magic to Simon of Gitta was because of his identifying him with Simon Magus.

Rather Simon Magus and his sorceries would have been forgotten had not his reputation been reinforced in the popular mind by that of his successor.

But to push the equation of St Paul with Simon Magus further than we are forced to by the facts of the case is to lose sight of the real character of the Clementines as the counterblast of Jewish to Samaritan Gnosticism and to obscure the greatness of Simon of Gitta, who was really the father of all heresy, a character which has been erroneously attributed to Simon Magus.

The reader who is not familiar with the eccentricities of the Tubingen school will doubtless be surprised to learn that the Paul who thus quietly slips in at the close of the drama was himself all along the disguised villain of the plot, the very Simon Magus whom he comes to assist Peter in destroying (see below).