_Luke_ useth the same Greek word both for the Holy Spirit leading of him, and Satans leading of him, so that Satan did not carry his body in the air, as Men vainly conceive. 2. Though S. _Matthew_ use the word παραλαμβάνει, which may signifie _assumpsit_, he took him, and set him upon a pinnacle of the Temple, and took him into an high mountain; yet it cannot be understood thereby that he took him, and carried his Body, but that he went before, and led Christ to those places, that he thought most fit for him to prevail in his temptations, to which places Christ went not by an unwilling constraint or hurried and carried in the air, but by a ready willingness, as one that certainly knew, and was assured, that he should win the Victory where ever, or how great soever the combat and temptations were. And therefore S. _Luke_ useth the same word from ἄγω, _duco_, both for the Spirits, and Satans leading, as signifying no more, but to go before, and lead the way, or to draw one to such or such a place by persuasion and desire, and not to be carried in the air, which appeareth to be a vain and forged interpretation, and not the true meaning of the places. [Sidenote: Acts 8. 9.] Concerning _Simon Magus_ we have before in this Treatise sufficiently proved that he was only a deceiver and Impostor, and what strange feats he had done to astonish, and stupifie the _Samaritanes_, were only jugling knacks, or deceits by confederacy, and no supernatural things, so that here we will say no more, but only add: That though our English translation say that he bewitched the people of _Samaria_ with sorceries, and that he himself, when he beheld the miracles and signs that were done, wondered; yet the word that they translate in the one place bewitching, and in the other wondered, are both from one _Thema_ which is Ἠξίστημι, _de statu mentis dejicio, facio ut aliquis mente non constet, perterrefacio, obstupefacio_. And therefore either it ought to be that the _Samaritanes_ were astonisht at the feats that _Simon_ wrought, and that he himself was astonisht at the miracles of _Philip_, or that they were both bewitched, for they were both under the same amazement, and there is no reason at all to give it one sense in one place, and a different one in the other. [Sidenote: Acts 13. 10.] [Sidenote: Acts 19. 13, 16.]