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Verse Acts 19:41. _HE DISMISSED THE ASSEMBLY._] την
εκκλησιαν. Another proof that the word εκκλησια,
which we generally translate _church_, signifies an _assembly_ of any
kind, good or bad, legal or i...
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DISMISSED THE ASSEMBLY - τὴν ἐκκλησίαν tēn
ekklēsian. The word usually translated “church.” Here it is
applied to the irregular and tumultuous “assemblage” which had
convened in a riotous manner....
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CHAPTER 19
_ 1. The second visit of Paul to Ephesus. The twelve disciples of John
(Acts 19:1)._
2. The Apostle's continued labors. The separation of the disciples.
The Province Asia evangelized (Act...
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TUMULT AT EPHESUS. A change of religion (for the Way, _cf. Acts 9:2_)
bears hardly on certain trades. In ch. 16 the Gospel interfered with
the trade of soothsaying; here the art of the silversmith suf...
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IN EPHESUS (Acts 19:1-7)
Acts 19:1-41 is mainly concerned with Paul's work in Ephesus. He
stayed longer there than anywhere else, almost three years.
(i) Ephesus (G2181) was the market of Asia Minor...
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WHEN, &C. = having said these things.
DISMISSED. dissolved. Greek. _apoluo._ App-174....
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_And … assembly_ This he could do in his official capacity. Probably
the last argument which he used would have most weight with his
audience. If such riotous conduct were reported at Rome it might le...
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HEATHEN OUTBREAK AGAINST ST PAUL AND HIS TEACHING...
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_A TOWN CLERK USED COMMON SENSE ACTS 19:35-41:_ Finally, a town
official that had some common sense begged the mob to "be quiet, and
to do nothing rashly." He suggested that if Demetrius and his worke...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
Special Study
PAUL'S POWER TO GIVE CHARISMATIC POWER
(Acts 19:1-41)
A.
There is much ambiguous, scripturally-imprecise and confusing exegesis
of Acts 19:1-7 being done today.
1....
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See notes on verse 35...
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And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
AND WHEN HE HAD THUS SPOKEN, HE DISMISSED THE ASSEMBLY.
Remarks:
(1) As the necessity under which Paul felt himself to transfer his
labou...
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38 After showing them that the men they had led to the theater were
not guilty of any overt act against the temple or goddess he reminds
them that there are legal means of redress for any wrong which...
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EPHESUS
1-41. Paul at Ephesus. Opposition of the manufacturers of idols. St.
Paul, leaving Antioch in S. Galatia (see Acts 18:23), approached
Ephesus not by the usual level route leading through Colos...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 19
PAUL IN EPHESUS, 19:1-10
V1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul was travelling. He travelled
through the *province on the higher road. He arri...
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τὴν ἐκκλησίαν : the word may imply, as Ramsay thinks,
that the secretary thus recognised the meeting as an ἐκκλησία
to shield it, as far as he could, from Roman censure. The attitude of
the secretary...
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THE LAWLESSNESS OF SELFISH GREED
Acts 19:30
The theater of Ephesus still stands, and the writer of these words has
spoken in its mighty enclosure, from the very spot where this town
clerk-the model...
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The result of the work of Apollos was manifest when Paul reached
Ephesus. There he found a company of sincere disciples to Jesus as He
had been revealed by John. To them Paul declared the truth in its...
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The Riot in Ephesus
While Timothy and Erastus were away, a man named Demetrius, a
silversmith who made shrines of Diana, or Artemis, began to stir
people up against Christianity. He called together t...
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_“And saying these things he dismissed the church.”_ Where E. V.
reads _“assembly,”_ the Greek has _ecclesia_, the word throughout
the Bible translated “church.” Why do we have the word
“church” used...
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After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he
had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying,
After I have been there, I must also see Rome. (22) So he sent...
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We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the
apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the
Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
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From Verse 24 of Chapter 18 to Verse 7 of Chapter 19 we have a kind of
summary of the progress made by the doctrine of Christ, and of the
power that accompanied it. Apollos knew only of the teaching o...
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AND WHEN HE HAD THUS SPOKEN,.... Or delivered this oration, made use
of the above arguments, reasonings, and expostulations:
HE DISMISSED THE ASSEMBLY; he ordered them to break up, and every one
to r...
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And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
Ver. 41. _Dismissed the assembly_] And so Demetrius was deceived. See
here the power of civil prudence and flexanimous eloquence. (See Cic.
de...
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_And when the town-clerk_ Greek, ο γραμματευς, _the
scribe;_ probably the proconsul's secretary, to whom the direction of
the affairs of the city was committed; _had appeased the people_ So
far as to...
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The end of the riot:...
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Paul returned to Ephesus, as he had promised. Of course there was an
assembly there already, as chapter 18:27 intimates; but he found
certain disciples who, at his questioning, tell him they had not e...
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AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THESE THINGS, HE DISMISSED THE ASSEMBLY.
1. He dismissed the assembly (the Greek word, ekklesia is used here).
2. It is time to go home and think about your actions.
3. This is...
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32-41 The Jews came forward in this tumult. Those who are thus
careful to distinguish themselves from the servants of Christ now, and
are afraid of being taken for them, shall have their doom accordi...
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The people were persuaded quietly to depart to their homes. Thus God
one way or other, sometimes by friends, and sometimes by foes, kept
his church and people from being ruined; and his hand is not
sh...
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Acts 19:41 And G2532 said G2036 (G5631) things G5023 dismissed G630
(G5656) assembly G1577
when - Proverbs 15:1-2; Ecclesiastes 9:17
he dismissed - Psalms 65:7; 2 Corinthians 1:8-10...
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A STIRRING IN EPHESUS ON ACCOUNT OF THE NAME OF ARTEMIS (19:23-41).
In considering what follows we should note two things about its
context:
· Firstly that it introduces the final section of Acts (A...
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DISMISSED THE ASSEMBLY
(απελυσεν την εκκλησιαν). The town-clerk thus gave
a semblance of law and order to the mob by formally dismissing them,
this much to protect them against the charge to which...
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CONTENTS: Paul at Ephesus. Disciples of John the Baptist become
Christians. Paul in the synagogue and in the school of Tyrannus.
Paul's miracles. Uproar of the silversmiths.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
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Acts 19:1. _Paul came to Ephesus,_ a city of Ionia, built by the
Amezones. Its temple of Diana was one of the seven wonders of the
world; but Pompey plundered it of all its riches. This city is now in...
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_A certain man named Demetrius._
PAUL AND DEMETRIUS
The application of these words to present day life is a task that
might be assigned to a child. Demetrius never dies; his word is to be
heard in e...
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 19:23. THE WAY.—See on Acts 9:2.
Acts 19:24. DEMETRIUS.—The name has been found in an inscription,
exhumed in Ephesus and supposed (Hicks) to belong to A.D. 50–60,
recording...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 19:1
_Country _for _coasts, _A.V.; _found _for _finding, _A.V. and T.R. THE
UPPER COUNTRY (τὰ ἀνωτερικὰ μέρη); the inland
districts of Galatia and Phrygia, through which St. Paul...
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And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth [watering what
Paul had planted], Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to
Ephesus; and there he found certain disciples [that no dou...
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2 Corinthians 1:8; Ecclesiastes 9:17; Proverbs 15:1; Proverbs 15:2;
Psalms 65:7...