To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
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Gill's Exposition
To him they had regard,.... Which is repeated from the foregoing verse, for the sake of what follows:
because that of a long time he had bewitched them with sorceries; or because he had, it may be…
Barnes' Notes
The great power of God - Probably this means only that they believed that he was “invested with” the power of God, not that they supposed he was really the Great God.
Adam Clarke
This man is the great power of God - That is, he is invested with it, and can command and use it. They certainly did not believe him to be God; but they thought him to be endued with a great…
Samson's riddle is here again unriddled: Out of the eater comes forth meat, and out of the strong sweetness. The persecution that was designed to extirpate the church was by the overruling providence…
Cambridge Bible
This man is the great power of God The A. V. translates the Tex. Rec., but the best MSS. give, This man is the power of God that is called great. We can see from the language of the N. T. that…
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