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Verse 29. _THE WHOLE CITY WAS FILLED WITH CONFUSION_] Thus we find the
peace of the whole city was disturbed, not by an _apostle_ preaching
the Gospel of Christ, but by one interested, unprincipled kn...
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CONFUSION - Tumult; disorder.
GAIUS - He had lived at Corinth, and had kinky entertained Paul at his
house, 1 Corinthians 1:14; Romans 16:23.
ARISTARCHUS - He attended Paul to Rome, and was
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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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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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WHOLE. Omit.
CONFUSION. Greek. _sunchusis._ Literally pouring together. Only here.
Compare Acts 19:32.
CAUGHT. seized. Greek. _sunarpazo._ See note on Acts 6:12.
GAIUS. If. Macedonian, not the same...
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_And the whole city was filled with confusion_ The oldest texts omit
"whole" and add an article before "confusion." It is the special
tumult which is meant. The city was not so much interested in the...
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ὅλη omitted with אAB. _Vulg_. does not represent it.
29. ΚΑῚ ἘΠΛΉΣΘΗ Ἡ ΠΌΛΙΣ ΤΗ͂Σ
ΣΥΓΧΎΣΕΩΣ, _and the city was filled with the confusion_. The
city was not so directly interested in the gains of the s...
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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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ΈΠΛΉΣΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΠΊΜΠΛΗΜΙ (G372)
наполнять,
ΣΥΓΧΎΣΕΩΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΣΎΓΧΥΣΙΣ (G4799)
смятение. _Gen._ содержимого. ΏΡΜΗΣΑΝ _aor.
ind. act. от_ ΌΡΜΆΩ (G3729) устремляться,
ΟΜΟΘΥΜΑΔΌΝ (G...
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ARISTARCHUS—OF MACEDONIA,— Aristarchus was afterwards imprisoned
with St. Paul, his friend and companion, at Rome, in the cause of the
gospel. See Colossians 4:10. The famous games in honour of Diana...
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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 28...
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And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius
and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they
rushed with one accord into the theatre.
AND THE [WHOLE] C...
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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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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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THE THEATRE] would hold over 24,000 people....
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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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THE WHOLE CITY WAS FILLED WITH CONFUSION. — The loud shouts from the
quarter in which Demetrius and his workmen met would, of course,
attract attention. A rumour would spread through the city that the...
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συγχύσεως : the noun only here in N.T. (συγχέω : only
in Luke, see above p. 238), in LXX, Genesis 11:9; 1 Samuel 5:11; 1
Samuel 14:20, used in classical Greek in the sense of confusion,
disturbance; τ...
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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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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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29.Luke setteth down in this place the nature of the people, as if it
were depainted in a table. − (395) Like as if a thousand houses
should be set on fire at a sudden, so all the city was on an upr...
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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 THE WHOLE CITY WAS FILLED WITH CONFUSION,.... For the workmen that
made the silver shrines very likely ran up and down in the city,
crying out, great is Diana of the Ephesians, which brought the p...
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And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius
and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they
rushed with one accord into the theatre.
Ver. 29. _And the w...
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_And when they heard, &c., they were full of wrath_ The inflammatory
speech of Demetrius, addressed to the superstition and avarice of the
multitude, immediately produced the desired effect; the craft...
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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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SO THE WHOLE CITY WAS FILLED WITH CONFUSION, AND RUSHED INTO THE
THEATER WITH ONE ACCORD, HAVING SEIZED GAIUS AND ARISTARCHUS,
MACEDONIANS, PAUL ' S TRAVEL COMPANIONS.
1. Confusion leads to a mass hy...
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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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FILLED WITH CONFUSION; tumults and noise; all conditions of men, high
and low, promiscuously being met in such uproars. GAIUS; one born at
Derbe, but living at Thessalonica, as ACTS 20:4. ARISTARCHUS;...
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Acts 19:29 So G2532 whole G3650 city G4172 filled G4130 (G5681)
confusion G4799 and G5037 rushed G3729 ...
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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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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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‘And the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed with
one accord to the theatre, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of
Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.'
They poured out of the...
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Acts 19:29. AND THE WHOLE CITY WAS FILLED WITH CONFUSION. We can well
understand how easily, when it was reported that a hitherto despised
company of foreign Jews for as such the Christians of the fir...
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WITH THE CONFUSION
(της συγχυσεως). Genitive case after επλησθη. An
old word, but in the N.T. only here, from verb συγχεω, to pour
together like a flood (only in Acts in the N.T.). Vivid descriptio...
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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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_Gaius and Aristarchus… Paul’s companions in travel _
THE MORALS OF TRAVELLING
These four words would be epitaph enough for any man.
It would take four days to tell the object, victories, sufferings...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 19:29 The THEATER had a capacity of more than
20,000 in Paul’s time. It was the place people gathered for town
business meetings. GAIUS and ARISTARCHUS were eventually releas
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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 Corinthians 1:14; 1 Corinthians 4:9; Acts 20:4; Acts 27:2; Acts 17:8
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The theater. The site of which can still be traced. It is said to have
been capable of seating fifty - six thousand persons.
Having seized [σ υ ν α ρ π α σ α ν τ ε ς]. Lit., "having
seized along with...
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They rushed with one accord — Demetrius and his company, into the
theatre — Where criminals were wont to be thrown to the wild beasts,
dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus — When they could not fi...