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Actually the facts are that he was a former sorceror who had become a believer that was also baptised. He was seeking the anointing of the Spirit and had suggested monetary means of aquiring it rather than seeking it as a free gift of grace. The believers in that area had recieved the infilling of the Spirit (downpayment) but not the power of the Spirit, which the disciples layed hands on them as the means of aquiring that. I believe it was a proof of the power to come to them for their outflowing but they already had the gift of impartation of the Spirit.Simon the sorceror, a pagan magician, not Simon Peter the Lord's disciple, is the one who offered money for the gift he saw the apostles using.
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