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Verse Acts 19:19. _WHICH USED CURIOUS ARTS_] ταπεριεργα.
From the use of this word in the Greek writers, we know that it
signified _magical_ arts, _sorceries, incantations_, c. Ephesus
abounded with...
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CURIOUS ARTS - Arts or practices requiring skill, address, cunning.
The word used here (περίεργα perierga) denotes properly
“those things that require care or skill,” and was thus applied to
the arts...
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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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MIRACLES, EXORCISMS, BURNING OF BOOKS OF MAGIC. Peter's shadow cured
the sick (Acts 5:15); Paul's minor articles of clothing do the same,
according to the widespread belief of antiquity in the indirec...
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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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Some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists tried naming the name of Jesus
over those who had evil spirits. They said, "I adjure you by Jesus
whom Paul preaches." There were seven sons of a certain Scaeva,...
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USED. practised. Greek. _prasso._
CURIOUS ARTS. Greek. _periergos._ Only here and 1 Timothy 5:13. The
word means "going beyond that which is legitimate". The kindred verb
only in 2 Thessalonians 3:11...
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_Many also of them which used curious arts_ The Greek has not the same
word for "many" here, as in the previous verse. To mark this the _Rev.
Ver._has here "not a few." The "curious arts" were magic,...
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ἹΚΑΝΟῚ ΔῈ ΤΩ͂Ν ΤᾺ ΠΕΡΊΕΡΓΑ
ΠΡΑΞΆΝΤΩΝ, _and not a few_ (so R.V. to make a distinction
from the πολλοί of Acts 19:18) _of them which used curious
arts_. The τὰ περίεργα were magic, jugglery and all such...
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PAUL PREACHES TO THE JEWS FIRST AND AFTERWARDS TO THE GENTILES. THE
WORD OF GOD PREVAILS MIGHTILY...
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_BOOKS ABOUT WITCHCRAFT WERE BURNED ACTS 19:11-20:_ God blessed Paul
with the power to work great miracles. Many sick people were healed
and evil sprits were cast out. Some vagabond Jews took it upon...
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ΠΕΡΊΕΡΓΟΣ (G4021) магические предметы.
Также термин для обозначения
магического заклинания (BS, 323; BAGD; DPL,
580-83; ВВС; MM; NDIEC, 1:47-49; 6:109-96; GMP; о широко
известных "ефесских письменах...
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DISCOURSE: 1795
GENUINE REPENTANCE
Acts 19:18. _And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed
their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their
books together, and turned...
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AND MANY THAT BELIEVED CAME, &C.— Exorcisms and incantations had
been very much practised at Ephesus: the Gentiles there imagined that
Diana, or the moon, presided over their incantations; but upon th...
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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 18...
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Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books
together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price
of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
MANY ('A CO...
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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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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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MANY OF THEM ALSO WHICH USED CURIOUS ARTS... — The Greek word
expresses the idea of superstitious arts, _overbusy_ with the supposed
secrets of the invisible world. These arts were almost, so to speak...
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ἱκανοὶ δὲ : to be referred probably to the magicians, as
the previous verse refers to their dupes: a Lucan word, see above on
Acts 8:11. τὰ περίεργα : “curious,” Wyclif and A. and
R.V. (“magical,” R.V...
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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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Magnifying Jesus' Name
God caused some great miracles to be worked through Paul. Even pieces
of cloth, like a handkerchief or apron, which had touched his body
could be placed on the body of the sick...
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Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books
together, and burned them before all [men]: and they counted the price
of them, and found [it] (i) fifty thousand [pieces] of silver.
(i)...
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Curious arts. By which are here meant books of divination and magic
art, to which study the Ephesians were much addicted. The price of the
books burnt, amounting to a great sum, even computing the 50,...
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Here we see the devil's preachers who had been converted to God under
the preaching of Paul making a bon-fire of their valuable theological
books, estimated at five thousand dollars. There are wagon-l...
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And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of
three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the
kingdom of God. (9) But when divers were hardened, and believed not,...
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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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_HOME READING_
Many … brought their ‘together, and burned them in the sight of
all.’
Acts 19:19 (R.V.)
One of the results of the preaching of St. Paul was the abandonment
by his converts of those ‘...
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19._Who used curious crafts. _Luke doth not only speak of magical
jugglings, but of frivolous and vain studies, whereof the more part of
men is for the most part too desirous. For he useth the word,...
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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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MANY ALSO OF THEM WHICH USED CURIOUS ARTS..... Magic arts,
soothsaying, necromancy, conjuration, and the like, being convinced of
the folly and wickedness of them:
BROUGHT THEIR BOOKS TOGETHER; by wh...
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_And this_ Acknowledgment of the divine authority of Jesus and Paul,
made in the absence of both; or this fact, concerning the possessed
man, thus prevailing against the sons of Sceva; _was known to a...
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CURIOUS ARTS; cunning, adroit practices of jugglery and deception.
BOOKS; those which taught the way to practise these arts. When men are
truly converted to God and obey his will, they will forsake t...
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A further result of this event:...
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MANY OF THEM ALSO WHICH USED CURIOUS ARTS BROUGHT THEIR BOOKS
TOGETHER, AND BURNED THEM BEFORE ALL MEN; AND THEY COUNTED THE PRICE
OF THEM, AND FOUND IT FIFTY THOUSAND PIECES OF SILVER....
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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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ALSO, MANY OF THOSE WHO HAD PRACTICED MAGIC BROUGHT THEIR BOOKS
TOGETHER AND BURNED _THEM_ IN THE SIGHT OF ALL. AND THEY COUNTED UP
THE VALUE OF THEM, AND _IT_ TOTALED FIFTY THOUSAND _PIECES_ OF SILVE...
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"And not. few of them that practised magical arts brought their books
together and burned them in the sight of all; and they counted the
price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver"Pra...
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13-20 It was common, especially among the Jews, for persons to
profess or to try to cast out evil spirits. If we resist the devil by
faith in Christ, he will flee from us; but if we think to resist h...
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Thus their good works justified their faith, without which it had been
dead, JAMES 2:24,26. CURIOUS ARTS; or rather idle and vain arts, as
judicial astrology, calculating nativities, and all magical a...
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Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book I
much more ignorant (than ours) they had disclosed certain
well-concealed material substances, and several not well-revealed
scientific arts-if it is true tha...
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Acts 19:19 Also G1161 many G2425 practiced G4238 (G5660) magic G4021
brought G4851 books G976 together G4851 ...
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PAUL'S CONTINUING MINISTRY IN EPHESUS (19:8-20).
Meanwhile we are reminded that Paul's' ministry continues in Ephesus
in the proclamation of the Kingly Rule of God (compare Acts 1:3; Acts
8:12; Acts 1...
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‘And not a few of those who practised magical arts brought their
books together and burned them in the sight of all, and they counted
the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.'...
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Acts 19:19. MANY OF THEM ALSO WHICH USED CURIOUS ARTE. This specifies
the practices of some of these professing believers, notwithstanding
their professions of faith. Many of these nominal Christians,...
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NOT A FEW OF THEM THAT PRACTISED CURIOUS ARTS
(ικανο των τα περιεργα πραξαντων).
Considerable number of the performers or exorcists themselves who knew
that they were humbugs were led to renounce th...
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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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ALL THE JEWS AND GENTILES. Ephesus was a center of magic and the black
arts. This happening would have a strong effect on those who sold
magic charms, etc., and would honor the Christ whom Paul preach...
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_While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul … came to Ephesus._
--Ephesus was the third capital and starting point of Christianity At
Jerusalem Christianity was born in the cradle of Judaism; Antioch had
been...
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_And he welt into the synagogue._
PAUL’S MINISTRY AT EPHESUS
I. Wonderful preaching.
1. Manner of the preaching.
(1) It was bold (Act 4:31; 2 Corinthians 7:4; Philippians 1:14).
(2) It was logical...
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_And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds._
THE RIGHT CONFESSION
I. Its root: faith.
II. Its motive: repentance.
III. Its fruit: obedience. (_K. Gerok._)
CONVERSION
“And...
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BONFIRES
Not a few of them that practiced unusual arts brought their books
together, and burned them in the sight of all: and they counted the
price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of si...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 19:19 The Greco-Roman world believed in magical
incantations and spells (see note on 13:6). They often collected them
into BOOKS that sold for large sums. PIECES OF SILVER
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 19:13. VAGABOND.—_I.e._, wandering about, or strolling JEWS,
EXORCISTS, by profession (compare Matthew 12:8). “They appear to
have regarded Paul as one of their own class, but...
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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 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Samuel 28:7; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Acts 13:6;...
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Curious arts [τ α π ε ρ ι ε ρ γ α]. The word means,
literally, overwrought, elaborate, and hence recondite or curious, as
magical practices. Only here and 1 Timothy 5:13, in its original sense
of thos...
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Curious arts — Magical arts, to which that soft appellation was
given by those who practised them. Ephesus was peculiarly famous for
these. And as these practices were of so much reputation there, it...