10. The great power of God. The best texts add 4 xadov- Hévn, which is called, and render that power of God which és called great. They believed that Simon was an émpersonated power of God, which, as the highest of powers, they designated as the great.
11. Bewitched. Amazed, as ver. 9. 13. Continued with. See on ch. i. 14.
Miracles and signs (onyeia Kal Suvdwes). Lit., signs and powers. See on Matt. xi. 20; Acts ii. 29.
Which were done (ywouévas). The present participle. Lit., are coming to pass.
He was amazed. After having amazed the people by his tricks. See ver. 9. The same word is employed.
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14. Samaria. The country, not the city. See vv. 5, 9.
16. They were (imfpyov). See on Jas. ii.15. Rev., more literally, had been.
In the name (eis 76 dvopa). Lit., “ énto the name.” See on Matt. xxviii. 19.
20. Perish with thee (adv col ein eis awe@devav). Lit., be along with thee unto destruction. Destruction overtake thy money and thyself.
21. Part nor lot. Zot expresses the same idea as part, but figuratively.
Matter (Adyw). The matter of which we are talking: the subject of discourse, as Luke i. 4; Acts xv. 6.
Right (ev9eia). Lit., straight.
22. If perhaps. The doubt suggested by the heinousness of the offence.
Thought (ézévora). Only here in New Testament. Lit., a thinking on or contrwing; and hence implying a plan or design.
23. In the gall (e’s yornv). Lit., to. Thou hast fallen into and continuest in. Gall, only here and Matt. xxvii. 34. Gall of bitterness is bitter enmity against the Gospel.
Bond of iniquity (cvvdecpov aoixias). Thou hast fallen into iniquity as into fetters. The word ctvoecpor denotes a close, Jjirm bond (cup, together). It is used of the bond of Christian peace (Eph. iv. 3); of the close compacting of the church represented as a body (Col. ii. 19); and of love as the bond of perfectness (Col. iii. 14). See Isa. lviii. 6.
26. The south (weonwBpiav). A contracted form of peon- pepia, midday, noon, which is the rendering at Acts xxii. 6,
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Desert. Referring to the route. On desert, see on Luke xy.4. There were several roads from Jerusalem to Gaza. One is mentioned by the way of Bethlehem to Hebron, and thence through a region actually called a desert.
27. Of Ethiopia. The name for the lands lying south of Egypt, including the modern Nubia, Cordofan, and Northern Abyssinia. Rawlinson speaks of subjects of the Ethiopian “queens living in an island near Meroé, in the northern part of this district. He further remarks: ‘The monuments prove beyond all question that the Ethiopians borrowed from Egypt their religion and their habits of civilization. They even adopted the Egyptian as the language of religion and of the court, which it continued to be till the power of the Pha- raohs had fallen, and their dominion was again confined to the frontier of Ethiopia. It was through Egypt, too, that Christi- anity passed into Ethiopia, even in the age of the apostles, as is shown by the eunuch of Queen Candace.”
Of great authority (Svvdorns). A general term for a po- tentate.
Candace. The common name of the queens of Meroé: a titular distinction, like Pharaoh in Egypt, or Caesar at Rome.
Treasure (ydaés). Only here in New Testament. <A Per- sian word.
29. Join thyself (codrAnIn7t). See on Luke xv. 15; x. 11; Acts v. 12.
30. Understandest thou what thou readest (dpd ye yive- oes & avaywooKes); The play upon the words cannot be translated. The interrogative particles which begin the ques-
tion indicate a doubt on Philip’s part.
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