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Acts 8:22 (WEB)
Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

Catechism · 1

§2121Article 1 · The First CommandmentRead at vatican.va
“Simony is defined as the buying or selling of spiritual things.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 8:9-24.

John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIII.12Conference XIII
“…and pray God if haply the thoughts of thine heart may be forgiven thee; for I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and the bonds of iniquity.”” — editor's note: Acts viii. 22, 23.
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Tertullian, On Idolatry Chapter 9
“For thenceforward Simon Magus, just turned believer, (since he was still thinking somewhat of his juggling sect; to wit, that among the miracles of his profession he might buy even the gift of the Holy Spirit through imposition of hands) was cursed by the apostles, and ejected from the faith.” — editor's note: See Acts viii. 9–24.
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Augustine of Hippo, On the Holy Trinity XII.12Book XII
“For here is one person, one human being, and he as a whole will be condemned, unless those things which, as lacking the will to do, and yet having the will to please the mind with them, are perceived to be sins of thought alone, are pardoned through the grace of the Mediator.” — editor's note: [Augustin here teaches that the inward lust is guilt as well as the outward action prompted by it. This is in accordance with Matt. v. 28; Acts viii. 21–22;…
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 6
“Understand that he did not; attend to the very words of the Apostle Peter, for he goes on, “Thou hast no part nor lot in this faith: for I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness.”” — editor's note: Acts viii. 5–23.
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Hippolytus of Rome, The Refutation of All Heresies VI.2Book VI
“(But) the man was a (mere) cheat, and full of folly, and the Apostles reproved him in the Acts.” — editor's note: Acts viii. 9–24.
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