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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_35264" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_35264" /> == | ||
<p> Arabic ( | <p> Arabic ( '''''Alim''''' , "wise," related to '''''Ulema''''' ) for Barjesus, the Jew sorcerer associated with [[Sergius]] Paulus. proconsul of [[Cyprus]] at Paul's visit ( Acts 13:6, etc.). [[Struck]] blind for "seeking to turn away the deputy (proconsul) from the faith." As he opposed the gospel light, in significant retribution he lost the natural light. Contrast Paul's simultaneously receiving sight and the [[Holy]] Spirit ( Acts 9:17). As belief in religion declined under the Roman empire, belief in eastern magic increased. </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16048" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16048" /> == | ||
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== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_66043" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_66043" /> == | ||
<p> A name signifying 'magician,' applied to | <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" /> == | ||
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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> ( | <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" /> == | ||
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== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_3452" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_3452" /> == | ||
<p> '''''el´i''''' -'''''mas''''' ( Ἐλύμας , <i> '''''Elúmas''''' </i> , "wise"; Acts 13:8 ). See | <p> ''''' el´i ''''' - ''''' mas ''''' ( Ἐλύμας , <i> ''''' Elúmas ''''' </i> , "wise"; Acts 13:8 ). See Bar-Jesus . </p> | ||
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