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Am I the only one who doesn't understand what the last paragraph ("Clerk") contributes to the understanding of the lemma? --87.65.156.187 16:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
One of the descriptions i associate with Simony is of someone paying money to get spiritual /magickal powers. Of getting abilties and powers by paying for it. There needs to be a wider view presentation of Simony here. Its too narrow.--Redblossom 14:24, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Simony is the selling of church offices and roles.EJET63 (talk) 01:35, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
I just tried a search for 'simoniacs' and found nothing. Hopefully entering this term in this discussion might resolve that. Otherwise, the term should be included in the main article for the search engines to find. 72.141.160.63 (talk) 20:57, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Could someone please wikify the word temporal. I can't quite figure out what it means in this context. Thanks.--85.177.150.34 (talk) 19:47, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
"Temporal" means "of this world of money and things" -- contrast with "spiritual" Gdt (talk) 12:57, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Simony is not defined, per se, in the new testament. The church's teaching on simony is derived from an account in scripture (the one cited in Acts 8). The first line of the article should be updated to reflect this distinction. 76.167.93.99 (talk) 06:17, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
... opens with the statement: "Simony is an offence against the law of the church." It doesn't say which church, or for that matter, which law. A sub-heading later on narrows the focus to "Church of England", but there are no other sub-headings describing the specifics of the Catholic, Orthodox or other Protestant churches' treatment of simony. Is this because simony is primarily a CoE issue?
The second paragraph under the CoE sub-heading goes on to discuss simony as an offence under statute (ie non-church) law. So the opening statement about simony as 'an offence against the law of the of the church' is again inaccurate and inadequate.
I might get around to editing the article if I'm feeling particularly theological one day, but that day may be some distance off, so feel free to do it sooner. Wayne 09:06, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
In the CE, owners bought and sold the land rights, which included the responsibility of paying clergy, along with the right to select the paid clergy. Why wasn't this simony? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.188.47.239 (talk) 02:21, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
In the third paragraph under Origin, should 'Nicacea' be 'Nicaea' (where the first council of Christian bishops was held in 325 AD)? Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 10:48, 14 December 2023 (UTC)