Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.used. 8:9-11 13:6,8 Ex 7:11,22 De 18:10-12 1Sa 28:7-9 1Ch 10:13 2Ch 33:6 Isa 8:19 47:12,13 Da 2:2
curious. [Periergos,] 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 [Ephesios gramma,] the Ephesian letters, certain charms, or words used in incantation, became much celebrated in antiquity.
and burned. Ge 35:4 Ex 32:20 De 7:25,26 Isa 2:20,21 30:22 Mt 5:29,30 Lu 14:33 Heb 10:34
fifty. Probably Attic drachms; which at 7.?d. each, would amount to 1,562?. 10s. or at, 9d. each, to 1,875?.
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