Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 19:27
See notes on verse 23
See notes on verse 23
Verse Acts 19:27. _THE TEMPLE OF THE GREAT GODDESS DIANA_] From a number of representations of the Ephesian goddess Diana, which still remain, we find that she was widely different from _Diana_ the _...
SO THAT NOT ONLY ... - The grounds of the charge which Demetrius made against Paul were two: first, that the business of the craftsmen would be destroyed usually the first thing that strikes the mind...
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...
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...
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....
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...
THIS OUR CRAFT. Literally this share for us, i.e. our line of trade. IS IN DANGER. Greek. _kinduneuo._ Only here, Acts 19:40; Luke 8:23; 1 Corinthians 15:30. TO BE SET AT NOUGHT. Literally to come i
_so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought_ This is an instance where the _Rev. Ver._, though more literal, gains nothing in force, and loses in diction. "And not only is there...
HEATHEN OUTBREAK AGAINST ST PAUL AND HIS TEACHING...
ΟΥ̓ ΜΌΝΟΝ ΔῈ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ ΚΙΝΔΥΝΕΎΕΙ ἩΜΙ͂Ν ΤῸ ΜΈΡΟΣ ΕἸΣ�, _and not only is this our craft in danger to be set at nought_, τὸ μέρος = the portion or share which we make by our trade. ἀπελεμός seems to be fou...
_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...
ΚΙΝΔΥΝΕΎΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΚΙΝΔΥΝΕΎΩ (G2793) быть в опасности, ΉΜΪΝ _dat. pl. от_ ΈΓ (G1473). _Dat._ отсутствия преимущества: "опасность для нас" ΜΈΡΟΣ (G3313) _acc. sing._ доля, торговля. В _...
WHOM ALL ASIA AND THE WORLD WORSHIPPETH.— As Diana was known under a great variety of titles and characters, as the goddess of hunting, of travelling, of childbirth, of enchantments, &c. as Luna, Heca...
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....
So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and t...
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...
19:27 Artemis (c-24) Latin, 'Diana.'...
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...
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...
NOT ONLY THIS OUR CRAFT. — The English word conveys, perhaps, too much the idea of art. _Our business,_ or _our interests,_ would be a somewhat better equivalent. The Greek word is not the same as tha...
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...
τοῦτο … τὸ μέρος, _sc._, τῆς ἐργασίας ἡμῶν, Acts 19:25, Grimm-Thayer this branch of their trade, which was concerned with the making of the shrines. Others take μέρος = _trade_, the part assigned to o...
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...
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...
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...
So that not only (m) this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia an...
_In danger of being vilified, and Diana of losing her reputation. They ought to have reflected, says St. John Chrysostom, (hom. xlii.) that if such a poor man, as Paul, could destroy the worship, and...
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...
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...
− 27._Not only this part. _This is first disorderly handled in − (389) that Demetrius is careful for religion after other things; − (390) because nothing is more absurd than to prefer the belly before...
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...
SO THAT NOT ONLY THIS OUR CRAFT IS IN DANGER TO BE SET AT NOUGHT,.... Or "to come into reproof", as the words may be literally rendered, and as they are in the Vulgate Latin version; that is, if this...
So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and th...
_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...
SO THAT NOT ONLY THIS OUR CRAFT IS IN DANGER TO BE SET AT NAUGHT, BUT ALSO THAT THE TEMPLE OF THE GREAT GODDESS DIANA SHOULD BE DESPISED, AND HER MAGNIFICENCE SHOULD BE DESTROYED, WHOM ALL ASIA AND TH...
The speech of Demetrius:...
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...
SO NOT ONLY IS THIS TRADE OF OURS IN DANGER OF FALLING INTO DISREPUTE, BUT ALSO THE TEMPLE OF THE GREAT GODDESS DIANA MAY BE DESPISED AND HER MAGNIFICENCE DESTROYED, WHOM ALL ASIA AND THE WORLD WORSHI...
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...
NOT ONLY THIS OUR CRAFT IS IN DANGER TO BE SET AT NOUGHT; not only that we shall have no more to do, and be without work; but that it will be a reproach unto us to have had such an employment. BUT ALS...
Acts 19:27 So G1161 not G3756 only G3440 this G5124 trade G3313 ours G2254 danger G2793 (G5719) falling...
“And not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute; but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis (Diana) be made of no account, and that she should even be deposed from her...
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...
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...
THIS OUR TRADE (τουτο το μερος). Part, share, task, job, trade.COME INTO DISREPUTE (εις απελεγμον ελθειν). Not in the old writers, but in LXX and _Koine_. Literally, reputation, exposure, censure,...
WORLD (Greek, "oikoumenē", means "inhabited earth"). (_ See Scofield) - (Luke 2:1). _...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
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...
1 John 5:19; 1 Timothy 6:5; Acts 19:21; Matthew 23:14; Revelation 13:3
Craft [μ ε ρ ο ς]. Lit., part or department of trade. To be set at nought [ε ι ς α π ε λ ε γ μ ο ν ε λ θ ε ι ν]. Lit., to come into refutation or exposure; hence, disrepute, as Rev. Compare ch. 18 28...
There is danger, not only that this our craft [trade] should come into disgrace, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised — No wonder a discourse should make so deep an i...