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Simony:
The buying or selling of spiritual things. The word is derived from the biblical sorcerer Simon Magus, who attempted to buy spiritual powers from the apostle Peter (see Acts 8:18-24).
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  • Simony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Simony is the ecclesiastical crime of paying for holy offices or positions in the hierarchy of a church, named after Simon Magus, who appears in the Acts of the Apostles 8:18-24.

  • CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Simony

    Usually defined 'a deliberate intention of buying or selling for a temporal price such things as are spiritual of annexed unto spirituals'

  • simony definition |Dictionary.com

    noun . 1. the making of profit out of sacred things. 2. the sin of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferments, benefices, etc.

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