Simony

The term "Simony," as denoting the purchase for money of spiritual offices, is derived from him.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

And actually conducted research on their own dime (some twice like Simony just recently) * This one* is a freeloader. (and the shuttle had carried a few of those before, so nothing new) observer

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The book was done by the famed creative team that brought us “Spawn: Simony”, the acclaimed Spawn title printed in France by Semic in 2003, without using the usual Image Comics co.

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Even minor characters like Didactylos and would-be rebel leader Simony are well-rounded and given good rationales for what they do.

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Even minor characters like Didactylos and would-be rebel leader Simony are well-rounded and given good rationales for what they do.

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“Simony” for trying to buy something that is priceless, from the story of Simon Magus in Acts

The Volokh Conspiracy » Classical or Biblical Allusions: 2007

Quapropter multum ditavit eos possessionibus, pecuniis et castellis, super onmes Romanos ":" For he was the first at whose court Simony was openly committed in favor of his adherents.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

To buy a holy thing for money is the sin of simony -- so called after Simon, a magician, who tried to bribe the Apostles to give him Confirmation when he was unworthy of it.

Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine Thomas L. Kinkead

Simony is committed by acquiring spiritual things in return for a remuneration.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Simony possessed the Church, and the ministers of religion again sold their Master for silver.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various