Acts 8:9-11
who had been practicing magic <3096> [used.]
claiming <3004> [giving.]
All <3956> [they.]
from <575> [from.]
greatest ............ power ....... Great <3173 1411> [the great power.]
had amazed <1839> [he had.]
Acts 19:18-19
confessing <1843> [confessed.]
practiced <4238> [used.]
magic <4021> [curious.]
[Periergos <\\See definition 4021\\>,] curious, that is, magical arts, in which sense the word is used in the Greek writers. The study of magic was prosecuted with such zeal at Ephesus, that [Ephesios <\\See definition 2180\\> gramma <\\See definition 1121\\>,] the Ephesian letters, certain charms, or words used in incantation, became much celebrated in antiquity.
burned ... up <2618> [and burned.]
fifty thousand <4002> [fifty.]
Probably Attic drachms; which at 7.«d. each, would amount to 1,562œ. 10s. or at, 9d. each, to 1,875œ.
Exodus 22:18
Leviticus 20:6
spirits <0178> [familiar.]
prostitution <02181> [go.]
cut ... off <03772> [cut him.]
In the days of Moses, superstition was almost the {sensus communis} of the human race, which then made severe punishment necessary: by means of the Christian dispensation such errors are now exploded, the cultivation of philosophy and natural history having harmonised and contributed their feebler share of light, so that we no longer have to deplore mischiefs occasioned by the silly curiosity attempting to unfold future events.
Deuteronomy 18:10-12
son <01121> [maketh.]
or ......... divination .... reader <07081 07080> [that useth divination.]
The precise import of the terms here used to express these unhallowed practices cannot be clearly ascertained: he that useth divination, {kosaim, kesamim,} seems a general term for the various species after specified; observer of times, {meonain,} one who pretends to foretell by the clouds, planets, etc.; enchanter {menachesh,} a diviner, either by means of serpents, or by inspecting the entrails of beasts, the flight of birds, etc.; a witch, {mecashsheph,} one who used magical fumigations, etc.; a charmer, {chover chaver,} one who uses spells, or a peculiar conjunction of words, or tying knots, etc.; a consulter with familiar spirits, {shoel ov,} a pythoness; a wizard, {yidoni,} a cunning man; necromancer, {doresh el hammaithim} one who seeks enquiries of the dead.
necromancer <01875> [or a necromancer.]
Deuteronomy 18:1
allotment <02506> [shall have.]
eat <0398> [they shall.]
Deuteronomy 10:13
good <02896> [for thy.]
Isaiah 8:19-20
Seek ....................... seek <01875> [Seek.]
chirp <06850> [that peep.]
people <05971> [should not.]
living <02416> [for the living.]
instructions <08451> [the law.]
darkened <07837> [it is.]
darkened <07837> [light. Heb. morning.]
