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Simon Magus
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There are multiple artists with this name: 1. Simon Magus is a doom metal band from Toledo, OH, USA.consisting of Wes Allen, Micah Shimborske, Matt Snyder, Nick Shallcross, Mark Reynolds. They released their debut album The First Year Of Catastrophe in 2015 on Black Swamp Collective They are heavily influenced by bands such as Trouble, Saint Vitus, Black Sabbath, Revelation, Roky Erickson, Judas Priest and The Obsessed. See also their facebook and their bandcamp sites for more infos. <a href="h
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- Magus
- Nationality
- Samaritan
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- Early Christian and proto-Gnostic figure; sometimes referred to as the 'founder' of Gnosticism, though this is incorrect
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- Early Christianity/proto-Gnosticism
- Founder of
- Simonianism (polemic)
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- name in native language
- Σίμων ὁ μάγος
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Simon Magus (Greek Σίμων ὁ μάγος, Latin: Simon Magus), also known as Simon the Magician, was a religious figure whose confrontation with Peter is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. The act of simony, or paying for position, is named after Simon, who tried to buy his way into the power of the Apostles.
According to Acts, Simon was a Samaritan magus or religious figure of the 1st century AD and a convert to Christianity, baptised by Philip the Evangelist. Simon later clashed with Peter. Accounts of Simon by writers of the second century exist, but are not considered verifiable. Surviving traditions about Simon appear in traditional texts, such as those of Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius, where he is often described as the founder of Gnosticism, which has been accepted by some modern scholars, while others reject claims that he was a Gnostic, maintaining that he was merely considered to be one by the Church Fathers.