Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 8:19

19 Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the holy Ghost.

Such an extraordinary power of working Miracles, he did not desire, that he might glorifie God, or confirm the truths of the Gospel, (now professed by him) but out of an insatiable desire of gain, and ambition, to keep up his reputation; seeing how the Apostles had done beyond what he was able to do.