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Acts 19:28
And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians!
And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians!
ACTS 19:28 Qumou/ {A} Following Qumou/ codex Bezae syrhmg (614) (1799) 2401c 2412 add kai. dra,montej eivj to. a;mfodon (“_and running into the street_ they cried out”). 353...
WERE FULL OF WRATH - Were greatly enraged - probably at the prospect of losing their gains. GREAT IS DIANA ... - The term “great” was often applied by the Greeks to Diana. Thus, in Xenophon (Ephes. i....
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....
AND WHEN, &C. Moreover having heard and become full of wrath, they. CRIED OUT. were crying out....
_And when they heard these sayings_ The A.V. indicates that there is no Greek for the two last words. It is enough, with the _Rev. Ver._, to say " THIS." _they were full of wrath_ The verb in the orig...
HEATHEN OUTBREAK AGAINST ST PAUL AND HIS TEACHING...
ἈΚΟΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ ΔῈ Κ.Τ.Λ., _and when they heard this they became filled with wrath_, &c. Demetrius had appealed to them in such wise as to excite them more by each fresh argument. Their self-interest first...
_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...
ΆΚΟΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать, ΓΕΝΌΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part._ (причины), _см._ Acts 19:1. ΘΥΜΟΫ́ _gen. sing. от_ ΘΥΜΌΣ (G2372) злоба, яростный гнев. _Gen._ содерж...
GREAT IS DIANA, &C.— This epithet of _great,_ was frequently given by the heathens to Jupiter, Diana, and others of their superior idol deities: the ascription of it to the true God, is in scripture c...
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....
28, 29. The prospect of pecuniary ruin enraged the artisans, while their veneration for the goddess suggested the best theme on which to give vent to their wrath before the people. (28) "_And when the...
And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. AND WHEN THEY HEARD THESE SAYING, THEY WERE FULL OF WRATH, AND CRIED OUT, SAYING,...
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...
19:28 Artemis (c-16) Latin, 'Diana.'...
WERE FULL OF WRATH] D adds, and 'running into the street' cried out, etc. GREAT _is_ DIANA] D has, 'Great Diana of the Ephesians!' an invocation of the goddess. This reading may be correct....
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...
THEY WERE FULL OF WRATH, AND CRIED OUT. — Better, _they went on crying out,_ the tense implying continued action. GREAT IS DIANA OF THE EPHESIANS. — The cry was probably the usual chorus of the festi...
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...
ἔκραζον : “they cried continuously,” imperfect, see addition in. Μεγάλη ἡ Ἄ.: omitting ἡ we have apparently the popular cry, or rather invocation: Great Artemis! as it was actually used in the _cultus...
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...
_Great is Diana of the Ephesians. This they shouted out without intermission for about two hours, though the greatest part knew not why they had met together. A true representation of an unthinking ra...
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...
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...
AND WHEN THEY HEARD THESE SAYINGS,.... Both the masters and the workmen; THEY WERE FULL OF WRATH; against Paul and his doctrine: AND CRIED OUT, SAYING, GREAT IS DIANA OF THE EPHESIANS; this goddess...
And when they heard _these sayings_, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great _is_ Diana of the Ephesians. Ver. 28. _They were full of wrath_] The Greek word θυμος signifieth the heating...
_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...
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...
NOW WHEN THEY HEARD _THIS,_ THEY WERE FULL OF WRATH AND CRIED OUT, SAYING, " GREAT _IS_ DIANA OF THE EPHESIANS! " 1. The silversmiths are full of anger. Now, they decide to honor the goddess that is...
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...
The argument from their profit wrought very much upon them, especially meeting with their prejudicate opinions, having pretended antiquity and universality to confirm them. SAYING, GREAT IS DIANA OF T...
28, 29. The prospect of pecuniary ruin enraged the artisans, while their veneration for the goddess suggested the best theme on which to give vent to their wrath before the people. (28) "_ And when th...
Acts 19:28 Now G1161 heard G191 (G5660) were G1096 (G5637) full G4134 wrath G2372 and G2532 out...
‘And when they heard this they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis (Diana) of the Ephesians.” When they heard the suggestion that Artemis would be humiliated they were fil...
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...
THEY WERE FILLED WITH WRATH (γενομενο πλερεις θυμου). Having become full of wrath.CRIED OUT (εκραζον). Inchoative imperfect, began to cry out and kept it up continuously. Reiteration was characte...
DIANA Greek "Artemis". Not anciently of the Greek pantheon, but an Eastern goddess. Compare (_ See Scofield) - (Judges 2:13). _ But "Diana of the Ephesians" was rather a particular image of Artemis...
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 19:28 GREAT IS ARTEMIS OF THE EPHESIANS! Civic and religious pride led to the riot. ⇐...
_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 Kings 18:26; 1 Samuel 5:3; Acts 16:19; Acts 21:28; Acts 7:54;...
Cried out [ε κ ρ α ζ ο ν]. The imperfect is graphic; they continued crying. This reiteration was a characteristic of the oriental orgiastic rites....