Paul had been invited to preach to the Roman proconsul of Paphos, Sergius Paulus, but is heckled by Elymas, a "magus", whom Paul miraculously causes to go temporarily blind, thus converting the proconsul.
Anthony Wagner, Pedigree and Progress, Essays in the Genealogical Interpretation of History, London, Phillimore, 1975.
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