Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me. The "ye" here х humeis (G5210)] is emphatic-`Your prayer will be more efficacious than mine' (as Webster and Wilkinson well put it). Peter had urged him to pray for himself: he asks these wonder-working men to do it for him; having no confidence in the prayer of faith, but thinking that such men as these must possess some special interest with Heaven.
That none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me - not that the thought of his heart might be forgiven him (as Peter entreated him to seek), but only that the evils threatened might be averted from him. While this confirms Peter's view of his melancholy case, it shows that Christianity, as something divine, still retained its hold on him. Tradition (as already observed) - though not much to be relied on-represents this miserable man as turning out a great heresiarch, mingling Oriental and Grecian philosophy with some Christian elements.