Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 8:9

9 But there was a certain man called Simon, which before time in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one.

Magical inchantments, as a wizard:

caused them as men in an extasie to be amazed at, and afraid of him.

As if he had been God, or at least had some great favour with him, and had received some extraordinary power from him: Ecclesiastical Histories speak much of him, and tell us that he had a Statue set up in Rome for him, inscrib'd To Simon the holy God.

Marginal references: Chap. 13.6, 8.