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The deliberate intention and act of selling and/or buying spiritual goods or material things so connected with the spiritual that they cannot be separated therefrom: a violation of the virtue of religion, and a sacrilege, because it wrongfully puts a material price on spiritual things, which cannot be either sold or bought. The term comes from the name of Simon Magnus, who attempted to buy from Sts Peter and John the power to confirm people in the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:4-24). |
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