Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Acts 19:40
for we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.
for we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.
ACTS 19:40 @ouv# {C} Neither variant reading is without difficulty, and Hort, followed by Ropes, suspected the presence of a primitive error that has infected all texts. Hort conjectured that “probab...
Verse Acts 19:40. _FOR WE ARE IN DANGER_, c.] Popular commotions were always dreaded by the Roman government and so they should by all governments; for, when _might_ has nothing to direct its operati...
TO BE CALLED IN QUESTION - By the government; by the Roman authority. Such a tumult, continued for so long. a time, would be likely to attract the attention of the magistrates, and expose them to thei...
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...
CALLED IN QUESTION. Same as "implead" (Acts 19:38). FOR. concerning, as in Acts 19:8. UPROAR. Greek. _stasis,_ insurrection. CAUSE. Greek. _aition._ Only here and Luke 23:4;...
_For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar_. The A. V. seems here to be incorrect. -The word for "uproar" ought not to be joined with "this day." The construction is contrary...
ΠΕΡῚ ΟὟ ΟΥ̓ with אABHLP. _Vulg_. has ‘de quo possumus.’ 40. ΚΑῚ ΓᾺΡ ΚΙΝΔΥΝΕΎΟΜΕΝ ἘΓΚΑΛΕΙ͂ΣΘΑΙ ΣΤΆΣΕΩΣ ΠΕΡῚ ΤΗ͂Σ ΣΉΜΕΡΟΝ, _for indeed we are in danger to be accused of a riot concerning this day_. ἐγκ...
HEATHEN OUTBREAK AGAINST ST PAUL AND HIS TEACHING...
_A TOWN CLERK USED COMMON SENSE ACTS 19:35-41:_ Finally, a town official that had some common sense begged the mob to "be quiet, and to do nothing rashly." He suggested that if Demetrius and his worke...
ΚΙΝΔΥΝΕΎΟΜΕΝ _praea. ind. act., см._ Acts 19:27. ΈΓΚΑΛΕΊΣΘΑΙPRAES.pass, _inf., см._ Acts 19:38, с _gen._ передает обвинение. Эпэкз. _inf._ объясняет опасность, ΎΠΆΡΧΟΝΤΟΣ _praes. act. part., см._ Act...
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....
See notes on verse 35...
For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse. FOR WE (THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES) ARE IN DANGER TO BE CALL...
38 After showing them that the men they had led to the theater were not guilty of any overt act against the temple or goddess he reminds them that there are legal means of redress for any wrong which...
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...
WE ARE IN DANGER TO BE CALLED IN QUESTION. — The “we” as used to include the rioters. The “called in question” is the same verb as that rendered “implead” in Acts 19:38. There was a risk of which Deme...
ἐγκαλεῖσθαι στάσεως περὶ τῆς σήμερον, A.V., “to be called in question for this day's uproar,” but R.V., “to be accused concerning this day's riot,” rendering ἐγκαλ., as in Acts 19:38, and στάσεως, as...
THE LAWLESSNESS OF SELFISH GREED Acts 19:30 The theater of Ephesus still stands, and the writer of these words has spoken in its mighty enclosure, from the very spot where this town clerk-the model o...
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...
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...
FOR WE ARE IN DANGER OF BEING CALLED IN QUESTION,.... Or are liable to be called to an account, reproved, and punished by the Roman proconsul, appointed over this city, or by the Roman emperor, or the...
For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse. Ver. 40. _For we are in danger_] Danger we all desire to de...
_And when the town-clerk_ Greek, ο γραμματευς, _the scribe;_ probably the proconsul's secretary, to whom the direction of the affairs of the city was committed; _had appeased the people_ So far as to...
CALLED IN QUESTION FOR THIS DAY'S UPROAR; accused to the Roman government and punished. Riotous assemblies were forbidden by Roman law, and the penalty for instigating them was death. The Ephesians th...
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 WE ARE IN DANGER OF BEING CALLED IN QUESTION FOR TODAY ' S UPROAR, THERE BEING NO REASON WHICH WE MAY GIVE TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS DISORDERLY GATHERING. " 1. Why this uproar? We are a civilized socie...
32-41 The Jews came forward in this tumult. Those who are thus careful to distinguish themselves from the servants of Christ now, and are afraid of being taken for them, shall have their doom accordi...
He wisely minds them of their danger; for being under the power of the Romans, it was no less than the loss of their liberties to abet any faction or sedition; and to make a concourse or meeting tumul...
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“For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause for it, and as touching it we shall not be able to give account of this concourse.” For the truth was tha...
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...
Acts 19:40. FOR WE ARE IN DANGER TO BE CALLED IN QUESTION FOR THIS DAY'S UPROAR. Men of the rank of the ‘town-clerk' of Ephesus well knew how probable it was that a tumultuous meeting which endangered...
FOR INDEED WE ARE IN DANGER TO BE ACCUSED CONCERNING THIS DAY'S RIOT (κα γαρ κινδυνευομεν εγκαλεισθα στασεως περ της σημερον). The text is uncertain. The text of Westcott and Hort means "to be accus...
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...
AT LAST THE CITY CLERK. He ranked next to the mayor, and was sometimes "acting mayor." He is able to calm them and reason with them. OF THE SACRED ATONE. Meteorites were believed to be supernatural, a...
_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...
_Some therefore cried one thing, and some another._ THE EXCITEMENT AT EPHESUS I. What produced it. 1. Self-interest endangered. 2. Superstitious feelings aroused. 3. The unpopularity of the gospe...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 19:38 THE COURTS ARE OPEN. Courts conducted by the Roman proconsul to settle disputes as well as the scheduled meetings of the town assembly. THERE ARE PROCONSULS. A “proconsul” was...
_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 1:41; Acts 17:5; Acts 20:1; Acts 21:31; Acts 21:38;...
Concourse [σ υ σ τ ρ ο φ η ς]. Lit., a twisting together : hence of anything which is rolled or twisted into a mass; and so of a mass of people, with an underlying idea of confusion : a mob. Compare c...
This concourse — He wisely calls it by an inoffensive name....