Difference between revisions of "Elymas"
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== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16048" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16048" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> A [[Jewish]] sorcerer in the retinue of Sergius Paulus, the Roman proconsul at [[Paphos]] in Cyprus. He was sharply reproved by Paul, and struck with instant blindness for opposing the religious inquiries of the proconsul, who was abandoning idolatry and superstition, and embracing the gospel, Acts 13:6-12 . His blindness was to continue "for a season," and may have led to his spiritual illumination. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_66043" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_66043" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> A name signifying 'magician,' applied to BAR-JESUS, a Jew. He was a false prophet and sorcerer, at Paphos in Cyprus, and sought to turn away the proconsul from the faith. He was for a time smitten with blindness. Acts 13:6-12 . </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_72543" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_72543" /> == | ||
<p> '''El'ymas.''' ''( | <p> '''El'ymas.''' ''(A [[Wise]] Man).'' The Arabic name of the Jewish magus or sorcerer, Bar-jesus. Acts 13:6 ff. (A.D. 44). </p> | ||
== Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_47690" /> == | == Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_47690" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_38925" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_38925" /> == | ||
<p> (Ε᾿λύμας ), an appellative commonly derived from the Arabic ''Aliman (" | <p> (Ε᾿λύμας ), an appellative commonly derived from the Arabic ''Aliman ("A Wise Man,"'' see Pfeiffer, ''Dubia Vex.'' page 941; like the Turkish title ''Ulema,'' see Lakemacher, ''De Elyma Mago,'' in his ''Observatt.'' 2:162), which Luke interprets by ὸ μάγος, the ''Magian'' or "sorcerer:" it is applied to a Jew named BAR-JESUS, who had attached himself to the proconsul of Cyprus, Sergius Paulus, when Paul visited the island ( Acts 13:6 sq.). A.D. 44. On his attempting to dissuade the proconsul from embracing the [[Christian]] faith, he was struck with miraculous blindness by the apostle (see Neander's History of first [[Planting]] of the Christian Church, 1:125). A very different but less probable derivation of the word is given by Lightfoot in his [[Hebrew]] and Talmudical Exercitations on the Acts (Works, 8:461), and in his [[Sermon]] on Elymas the [[Sorcerer]] (Works, 7:104). Chrysostom observes, in reference to the blindness inflicted by the apostle on Bar-Jesus, that the limiting clause, for a season, "shows that it was not intended so much for the punishment of the sorcerer as for the conversion of the deputy (Chrysost. in Acta Apost. Homeil. 28; Opera, 9:241). On the practice generally then prevailing, in the decay of faith, of consulting Oriental impostors of this kind, see Conybeare and Howson, Life of St. Paul, 1:177-180, 2d ed. (See [[Magic]]). </p> | ||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15616" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15616" /> == | ||
