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ACTS 19:22-26
In these verses various witnesses of the Western text incorporate a
variety of picturesque details. After cro,non in ver. Acts 19:22 the
Greek text of codex Bezae adds ovli,gon...
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Verse Acts 19:24. _SILVER SHRINES FOR DIANA_] It is generally known
that the temple of Diana at Ephesus was deemed one of the _seven
wonders_ of the _world_, and was a most superb building. It appear...
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A SILVERSMITH - The word used here denotes “one who works in
silver” in any way, either in making money, in stamping silver, or
in forming utensils from it. It is probable that the employment of
this...
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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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It happened that at this time there was a great disturbance about The
Way. A certain man called Demetrius, who was a silversmith and who
made silver shrines of Artemis, brought very considerable profi...
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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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NAMED. by name.
SILVERSMITH. Greek. _argurokopos._ Literally silver-beater. Only here.
SHRINES. Greek. _naos._ See note on Matthew 23:16. Here. shrine meant
an image of the goddess and part of the fa...
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_For a certain man … shrines for Diana_ Better, _shrines of Diana_.
These appear to have been little models in silver either of the temple
or of the shrine in which the image was preserved. We may be...
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ΟΥ̓Κ ὈΛΊΓΗΝ ἘΡΓΑΣΊΑΝ with אABD. _Vulg_. ‘non
modicum quæstum.’
24. ἈΡΓΥΡΟΚΌΠΟΣ is found in LXX. Judges 17:4; Jeremiah
6:29.
ΝΑΟῪΣ�, _silver shrines of Diana_. These appear to have been
little models...
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HEATHEN OUTBREAK AGAINST ST PAUL AND HIS TEACHING...
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_DEMETRIUS CAUSED A RIOT IN EPHESUS ACTS 19:21-34:_ Paul planned to go
to Macedonia, Achaia, Jerusalem, and then to also see Rome.
Christianity (That Way) is always in conflict with the evils of the
w...
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ΆΡΓΥΡΟΚΌΠΟΣ (G695) серебряных дел
мастер. О работе серебряных дел
мастеров в Ефесе, почетных гражданах,
выполнявших также общественные
обязанности, _см._ NDIEC, 4:5-10; 127-29; BASHH, 23536;
Trebilco,...
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DEMETRIUS—WHICH MADE SILVER SHRINES FOR DIANA,— These _shrines,_
it has been generally supposed, were little _models_ of the famous
_temple of Diana,_ with folding-doors; which being opened, the image...
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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 23...
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For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver
shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
FOR A CERTAIN MAN NAMED DEMETRIUS, A SILVERSMITH, WHICH MADE SILVER...
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18 Many believers still clung to their old practices, but when they
found that the Lord was greater than the demons whom they feared, they
abandoned their false arts. They gave up the scrolls which ta...
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19:24 Artemis, (c-14) Latin, 'Diana.'...
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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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SHRINES] Many small terra-cotta and marble shrines of Artemis,
containing a figure of the goddess, have been found near Ephesus. They
were either dedicated in the Temple, or taken home by devout
worsh...
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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 arr...
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DEMETRIUS, A SILVERSMITH, WHICH MADE SILVER SHRINES FOR DIANA. — The
worship of Artemis (to give the Greek name of the goddess whom the
Romans identified with their Diana) had from a very early period...
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CHAPTER 15
THE EPHESIAN RIOT AND A PRUDENT TOWN CLERK.
Acts 19:23
ST. PAUL'S labours at Ephesus covered, as he informs us himself, when
addressing the elders of that city, a space of three years. Th...
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Δημ.: a sufficiently common name, as St. Luke's words show (Blass).
There is no ground for identifying him with the Demetrius in 3 John,
Acts 19:12, except the fact that both came from the neighbourho...
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THE POWER OF JESUS' NAME
Acts 19:13
Where God's spirit is mightily at work, Satan is not far away. Here
the enemy's emissaries were mean enough to use the name of Jesus to
get themselves a few more s...
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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 th...
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For a certain [man] named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver
(l) shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
(l) These were special counterfeit temples with Diana's picture...
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_ Who made silver temples for Diana. [1] Perhaps figures of Diana's
temple in silver; or boxes and shrines, in which was the statue or
figure of Diana. (Witham)_
[BIBLIOGRAPHY]
\'c6des argenteas, _G...
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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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_FALSE ZEAL_
‘A certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver
shrines for Diana.’
Acts 19:24
Demetrius is a type of those who debase religion by their
covetous-ness. He sold silver...
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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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FOR A CERTAIN MAN, NAMED DEMETRIUS, A SILVERSMITH,.... Who worked in
silver, not in coining silver money, but in making silver vessels, in
melting silver, and casting it into moulds, and forming it in...
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For a certain _man_ named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver
shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
Ver. 24. _Which made silver shrines_] Gr. temples, _Templa
portatili...
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_The same time there arose no small stir_ Ταραχος ουκ
ολιγος, _no small tumult, about that way_ The way of worshipping
God, and securing a happy immortality, which Paul taught. _For
Demetrius, a silve...
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SHRINES FOR DIANA; Diana was a celebrated heathen goddess, to whom a
splendid temple was erected at Ephesus. The shrines were small silver
temples, in imitation of that of Diana, which were bought by...
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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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FOR A CERTAIN MAN NAMED DEMETRIUS, A SILVERSMITH, WHO MADE SILVER
SHRINES OF DIANA, BROUGHT NO SMALL PROFIT TO THE CRAFTSMEN.
1. Ephesus was the "headquarters" for the goddess Diana. There was,
not o...
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21-31 Persons who came from afar to pay their devotions at the temple
of Ephesus, bought little silver shrines, or models of the temple, to
carry home with them. See how craftsmen make advantage to t...
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These shrines were only, either;
1. Portraits of the temple of Diana, in which was graven, or by any
other art represented, that famous structure, which was afterwards
burnt by Erostratus: or: 2. they...
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Acts 19:24 For G1063 certain G5100 named G3686 Demetrius G1216
silversmith G695 made G4160 (G5723) silver G693 shrines...
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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 (Ac...
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PAUL'S JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM AND THEN TO ROME (19:21-28:31).
Here we begin a new section of Acts. It commences with Paul's
purposing to go to Jerusalem, followed by an incident, which, while it
brings...
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‘For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver
shrines of Artemis (Latin: Diana), brought no little business to the
craftsmen, whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like
o...
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Acts 19:24. FOR A CERTAIN MAN NAMED DEMETRIUS, A SILVERSMITH, WHICH
MADE SILVER SHRINES FOR DIANA. The temple of Artemis or Diana, the
glory of Ephesus, was built of white marble on an eminence at the...
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DEMETRIUS, A SILVERSMITH
(Δημητριος αργυροκοπος). The name is common enough
and may or may not be the man mentioned in 3 John 1:12 who was also
from the neighbourhood of Ephesus. There is on an insc...
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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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THAT THERE WAS SERIOUS TROUBLE. Things had been peaceful up to now.
Notice trouble starts from a Gentile source. MADE SILVER MODELS OF THE
TEMPLE. The temple of Artemis [Diana] was one of the wonders...
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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 ev...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 19:24 SILVER SHRINES were replicas of the temple
of ARTEMIS. These were used for home altars or as offerings to be
presented to the goddess....
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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 a...
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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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1 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:9; Acts 16:16; Acts 19:27; Acts 19:28;...
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Silversmith [α ρ γ υ ρ ο κ ο π ο ς]. Lit., a silver -
beater.
Shrines. Small models of the temple of Diana, containing an image of
the goddess. They were purchased by pilgrims to the temple, just as
r...
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Silver shrines — Silver models of that famous temple, which were
bought not only by the citizens, but by strangers from all parts. The
artificers — The other silversmiths....