. Notes, critical and explanatory, on the Acts of the apostles. ndirect opposition to the prophets andteachers of the word. So always, inevery special advance of the kingdomof light, has the kingdom of dark-ness rallied in oppositi-on and decep-tion, from the time of Moses, when♦ the magicians did so with their en-chantments, (Exod. 7 : 11.) So Si-mon Magus against Philip, (ch. 8 : 9.) 1[ Bar-jesus— son of Joshua or Jesuf«,a common name. Bar is a Syriacterm, meaning son. This man wasthe Jewish specimen, who perhaps isto show here, at the threshold, howthe Jews will receive the Gospel fromthese
. Notes, critical and explanatory, on the Acts of the apostles. ndirect opposition to the prophets andteachers of the word. So always, inevery special advance of the kingdomof light, has the kingdom of dark-ness rallied in oppositi-on and decep-tion, from the time of Moses, when♦ the magicians did so with their en-chantments, (Exod. 7 : 11.) So Si-mon Magus against Philip, (ch. 8 : 9.) 1[ Bar-jesus— son of Joshua or Jesuf«,a common name. Bar is a Syriacterm, meaning son. This man wasthe Jewish specimen, who perhaps isto show here, at the threshold, howthe Jews will receive the Gospel fromthese missionaries. 7. Was ivith. An attendant of his,and in his service. T[ Ths deputy. Theterm here is peculiar, and means pro-consul. It was for a long time thoughtthat there was an error in the historyhere, as this was not the common titleof the governor. But a passage wasat length discovered in Dio Cassius,showing that Augustus gave up Cy-prus for certain reasons to be governedby this very style of officer, dvdvKaro^.And since that, coins have been found. beai-ing this very title which is hereused by Luke, and these coins werestruck in the reign of Claudius, AvhenPaul visited the island. ^ SergiusPaulus. Saul^ bears the name of^ Paul from this time. Some sup-pose it to have been on occasion of thisremarkable conversion where the Gen-tile Paulus receives the Gospel, whilethe Jew Elymas rejects it — and thatthis event was thus signalized becausethesewere to be understood as represen-tative men—and these specimen cases,at the threshold of his work, were tosignify to Paul the different receptionvhich the Gospel should meet withfrom Jew and Gentile at his vs. 9, note. Tf Prudent — intelli- gent, or discerning—as appears from thenarrative. % Who (Sergius Paulus,)called for — summoned, called to them—and desired earnestly to hear the word ofGod: the Gospel which claimed to bethis revelation Irom God. 8. But Elymas the sorcerer—the Ma-gus. The term Elymas i
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