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)
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\'c6des argenteas, Greek: naous argurous.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
_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...
HEATHEN OUTBREAK AGAINST ST PAUL AND HIS TEACHING...
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...
_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...
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,...
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...
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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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...
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...
19:24 Artemis, (c-14) 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
The speech of Demetrius:...
FOR A CERTAIN MAN NAMED DEMETRIUS, A SILVERSMITH, WHICH MADE SILVER SHRINES FOR DIANA, BROUGHT NO SMALL GAIN UNTO THE CRAFTSMEN;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Acts 19:24 For G1063 certain G5100 named G3686 Demetrius G1216 silversmith G695 made G4160 (G5723) silver G693 shrines...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
_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 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:9; Acts 16:16; Acts 19:27; Acts 19:28;...
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...
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....