Acts 8:9 Douay-Rheims

There was therefore great joy in that city. Now there was a certain man named Simon, who before had been a magician in that city, seducing the people of Samaria, giving out that he was some great one:

Justin Martyr

A.D. 100–165 Patristic

For I gave no thought to any of my people, that is, the Samaritans, when I had a communication in writing with Caesar, but stated that they were wrong in trusting to the magician Simon of their own nation, who, they say, is God above all power, and authority, and might.

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A.D. 165 · on Acts 8:9 (Dialogue with Trypho, Chapter CXX)

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