Elymas
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a magician, a corrupter
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ELYMAS.See Bar-jesus.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Arabic (alim, "wise," related to ulema) for Barjesus, the Jew sorcerer associated with Sergius Paulus. proconsul of Cyprus at Paul's visit (Act_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 (Act_9:17). As belief in religion declined under the Roman empire, belief in eastern magic increased.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
El'ymas. (a wise man). The Arabic name of the Jewish magus or sorcerer, Bar-jesus. Act_13:6 ff. (A.D. 44).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
el?i-mas (Ἐλύμας, Elúmas, ?wise?; Act_13:8). See BAR-JESUS.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
El?ymas, an appellative supposed to mean a wise man, applied to a Jew named Bar-Jesus, mentioned in Act_13:6-11. 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.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Elymas
(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 (Act_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.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ELYMAS.See Bar-jesus.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Arabic (alim, "wise," related to ulema) for Barjesus, the Jew sorcerer associated with Sergius Paulus. proconsul of Cyprus at Paul's visit (Act_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 (Act_9:17). As belief in religion declined under the Roman empire, belief in eastern magic increased.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
El'ymas. (a wise man). The Arabic name of the Jewish magus or sorcerer, Bar-jesus. Act_13:6 ff. (A.D. 44).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
el?i-mas (Ἐλύμας, Elúmas, ?wise?; Act_13:8). See BAR-JESUS.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
El?ymas, an appellative supposed to mean a wise man, applied to a Jew named Bar-Jesus, mentioned in Act_13:6-11. 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.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Elymas
(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 (Act_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.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
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