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Elymas

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

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El´ymas, an appellative supposed to mean a wise man, applied to a Jew named Bar-Jesus, mentioned in . 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.

 

 

 

 

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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Elymas'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​e/elymas.html.
 
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