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Ac 8:18 King James And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
offered them money--Hence the term simony, to denote trafficking in sacred things, but chiefly the purchase of ecclesiastical offices.
 
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15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: