Acts 19:19
used Acts 8:9-11, Acts 13:6, Acts 13:8; Exod 7:11, Exod 7:22; Deut 18:10-12; 1Sam 28:7-9; 1Chr 10:13; 2Chr 33:6; Isa 8:19, Isa 47:12-13; Dan 2:2 curious Περιεργα G4021, curious, that is, magical arts, in which sense the word is used in the Greek writers. The study of magic was prosecuted with such zeal at Ephesus, that Εφεσια G2180, γραμματα G1121, the Ephesian letters, certain charms, or words used in incantation, became much celebrated in antiquity. and burned Gen 35:4; Exod 32:20; Deut 7:25-26; Isa 2:20-21, Isa 30:22; Matt 5:29-30; Luke 14:33; Heb 10:34 fifty Probably Attic drachms; which at 7, 1/2d. each, would amount to 1, 562£. 10s. or at, 9d. each, to 1, 875£.
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