Believed (επιστευσεν). Ingressive aorist active indicative. Renan considers it impossible that a Roman proconsul could be converte…

Then the deputy—believed. He was convinced that Elymas was an impostor and that the doctrine of Paul was true. There seems no reason to do…

Being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.—The genitive is, probably, that of the object, the teaching that had the Lord, …

The nature of the proconsul’s response has often been debated, chiefly because the text says nothing about his being baptized when he believed. But…

Then when the deputy saw This is what I said, that the snares in which Elymas kept him entangled were broken, for he was brought by the mi…

Then the deputy, when he saw what was done
That Elymas was struck with blindness immediately, and that the hand of G…

Satan is in a particular way busy with great men and men in power, to keep them from being religious, for their example will influence many.