** Simon Magus ( 8: 9 – 24 )

Acts also features an emphasis on prayer and includes a number of notable prayers such as the Believers ' Prayer (), Stephen's death prayer (), and Simon Magus ' prayer ().

So Irenaeus tells of the system of Simon Magus, of the system of Menander, of the system of Saturninus, in which the number of these angels is reckoned as seven, and of the system of Carpocrates.

Like many other Christian writers, he also claims that heresy began with Simon Magus, a figure whom receives mention in Acts 8: 9-13 for being a magician from the city of Samaria.

The German Abbot and occultist Trithemius ( 1462 – 1516 ) supposedly had in his possession a Book of Simon the Magician, based upon the New Testament figure of Simon Magus.

* Helene, the consort of Simon Magus

In Book I, Irenaeus talks about the Valentinian Gnostics and their predecessors, who go as far back as the magician Simon Magus.

Simon the Sorcerer or Simon the Magician, in Latin Simon Magus, ( Greek Σίμων ὁ μάγος ) was a Samaritan magus or religious figure and a convert to Christianity, baptised by Philip the Evangelist, whose later confrontation with Peter is recorded in.

Peter's conflict with Simon Magus by Avanzino Nucci, 1620.

God then descended in the form of Simon Magus, to rescue his Ennoia, and to confer salvation upon men through knowledge of himself.

The death of Simon Magus, from the Nuremberg Chronicle

Cyril of Jerusalem ( 346 AD ) in the sixth of his Catechetical Lectures prefaces his history of the Manichaeans by a brief account of earlier heresies: Simon Magus, he says, had given out that he was going to be translated to heaven, and was actually careening through the air in a chariot drawn by demons when Peter and Paul knelt down and prayed, and their prayers brought him to earth a mangled corpse.

The apocryphal Acts of Peter gives a more elaborate tale of Simon Magus ' death.

The Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions and Homilies give an account of Simon Magus and some of his teachings in regards to the Simonians.

The encounter between both Dositheus and Simon Magus was the beginnings of the sect of Simonians.

The Apostles Paul and Peter confront Simon Magus before Nero, as painted by Filippino Lippi.

Simon's magical powers are juxtaposed with Peter's powers in order to express Peter's authority over Simon through the power of prayer, and in the 17th Homily, the identification of Paul with Simon Magus is effected.

The anti-Pauline context of the Pseudo-Clementines is recognised, but the association with Simon Magus is surprising since they have little in common.

However the majority of scholars accept Baur's identification, though others, including Lightfoot, argued extensively that the " Simon Magus " of the Pseudo-Clementines was not meant to stand for Paul.

* Simon Magus in popular culture

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Simon offered to raise the wager to $ 20, 000 and to use any resources at any time that Ehrlich preferred.

During his visits, Ribbentrop met with Simon and Benito Mussolini, and asked them to postpone the next meeting of the Bureau of Disarmament, in exchange for which Ribbentrop offered nothing in return other than promising better relations with Berlin.

* According to Simon Cowell's biography and Bill Carter's book Desperate Networks, UPN was offered American Idol before FOX and turned it down.

Initially offered at $ 2. 50 by SoftLock and Simon & Schuster, Amazon and Barnes and Noble gave free downloads.

Since nearly half a century lies between Wulfstan's death ( 1095 ) and John's final entry ( 1140 ), historian Simon Keynes has offered the tentative suggestion that Florence may have been the monk first commissioned by Wulfstan to compile material for a world chronicle and that John continued the task.

The Simon Executive MBA Program is offered on the Rochester campus, as well as in Bern, Switzerland in conjunction with the Institut für Finanzmanagement at the Universität Bern.

Psaltis was also offered a contract by WCW, but declined to leave ECW in order to remain with her fiancé, ECW wrestler Simon Diamond.

Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner ( later Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky ), who agreed to accept the unconditional surrender terms offered by Grant.

With Simpson on board, they set about looking for a record deal in late 2001 and at one point they were offered a deal by then Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell on his music label Syco, but they turned it down.

Winkler appeared in his first pantomime at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London in 2006, playing Captain Hook in Peter Pan, replacing David Hasselhoff who pulled out when he was offered a TV role by Simon Cowell.

Christie's offered a reported $ 21 million guarantee and agreed to display the consigned work for five weeks in New York on the 20th floor of the Simon & Schuster building.

On 12 October 2006 Simon created a YouTube spoof of David Cameron's video blog, in which, pretending to be Cameron, he offered viewers one of his children and the opportunity to sleep with his wife.

In June 2007, the duo were offered the job of presenters on new ITV reality platform Britain's Got Talent by Simon Cowell.

For the final performance of the season, Barrino offered a second performance of " Summertime " that again drew praise from the judges ; Simon Cowell remarked that she was the best contestant to ever compete in any competition, including the more than seventy Idol champions crowned nationally and internationally since the show began its first global incarnations.

" After the death of the High Court judge Sir Anthony Hawke in October 1941, the Lord Chancellor Lord Simon offered Birkett the seat.

* Simple Simon is the cheapest item offered on the menu of the Bluth ´ s Original Frozen Banana stand in the TV show Arrested Development.

The role of Simon Phoenix was also offered to Jackie Chan.

Years later, writer Simon Furman offered an " unofficial " conclusion to the Generation 2 storyline with " Alignment ", a text story available exclusively through the British Transformers convention, Transforce, in 2001 and 2002.

Clinical neuropsychology courses are offered at the following Canadian universities: Université de Montréal, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, York University and University of Windsor.

Thinking that it would be more feasible to use the pages by modifying them into an established character, Liefeld attempted to acquire the rights to Fighting American, another patriotic-themed character created in 1954 by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, but when the rights holders offered the rights at a price Liefeld thought was too high, he created a similar character, Agent America, in order to compel the Fighting American rights holders to acquiesce to Liefeld's offered price.

Author Simon Brett later wrote two sequels to the series in which a grown-up Nigel offered his observations on subjects such as jobs, family, holidays and D. I. Y.

Simon described the second season as " a meditation on the death of work and the betrayal of the American working class ... it is a deliberate argument that unencumbered capitalism is not a substitute for social policy ; that on its own, without a social compactHarvard College have offered classes on The Wire in disciplines ranging from law to sociology to film studies.

After being spotted in a restaurant in June 1931, Simon was offered a film contract by director Victor Tourjansky, which ended her plans on becoming a fashion designer.