Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Acts 19:25
Gain, getting or keeping a livelihood, are great temptations, and, a little pretext of piety with them, keep up the superstition and false worship that abound in the world.
Gain, getting or keeping a livelihood, are great temptations, and, a little pretext of piety with them, keep up the superstition and false worship that abound in the world.
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 19:25. _BY THIS CRAFT WE HAVE OUR WEALTH._] The word ευπορια not only signifies _wealth_, but also _abundance_. It was a most lucrative trade; and he plainly saw that, if the apostles were...
WITH THE WORKMEN OF LIKE OCCUPATION - Those who were in his employ, and all others engaged in the same business. As they would be all affected in the same way, it was easy to produce an excitement amo...
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 TOGETHER. gathered together. See note on Acts 12:12. WITH. and. WORKMEN. Greek. _ergates._. general term. OF LIKE OCCUPATION. Literally concerning (Greek. _peri._ App-104.) such things. The s...
_whom he called_[Better, GATHERED] _together with the workmen of like occupation_ His own special craft was the carving and engraving of these shrines, as we learn from the word rendered silversmith....
ΟὛΣ ΣΥΝΑΘΡΟΊΣΑΣ ΚΑῚ ΤΟῪΣ ΠΕΡῚ ΤᾺ ΤΟΙΑΥ͂ΤΑ ἙΡΓΆΤΑΣ, _whom having gathered together along with the workmen of like occupation_. His own special branch of the craft was the carving and engraving of these...
HEATHEN OUTBREAK AGAINST ST PAUL AND HIS TEACHING...
_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...
ΣΥΝΑΘΡΟΊΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΣΥΝΑΘΡΟΊΖΩ (G4867) собирать, созывать вместе. Он организовывал акцию протеста всех ремесленников (Bruce), ΕΊΠΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ, _см._ Acts 19:21. ΈΠ...
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 23...
Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. WHOM HE CALLED TOGETHER WITH THE WORKMEN OF LIKE OCCUPATION - rather, 'wi...
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...
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...
THE WORKMEN OF LIKE OCCUPATION. — The “craftsmen” of the previous verse represent the higher class of what we call skilled labour. Here we have the unskilled labourers whom they employed. The former w...
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...
περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα, _cf._ Luke 10:40-41, for a similar use of περί with accusative, but see W. H., _l. c._, and 2Ma 12:1. εὐπορία : wealth, or gain, only here in N.T., in classical Greek “in different se...
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...
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...
− 25._By this craft. _Demetrius doth in this place filthily betray his malice. It is lawful for a man, in some measure, to provide for his private profit; but to trouble common [the public] peace for...
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...
WHOM HE CALLED TOGETHER,.... That is, the craftsmen; "all his co-artificers", as the Syriac version reads, all the chief of the trade, the masters of it, as he himself was: WITH THE WORKMEN OF LIKE O...
Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Ver. 25. _By this craft we have our wealth_] And wealth is the wordling's g...
_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...
CRAFT; trade....
The speech of Demetrius:...
WHOM HE CALLED TOGETHER WITH THE WORKMEN OF LIKE OCCUPATION AND SAID, SIRS, YE KNOW THAT BY THIS CRAFT WE HAVE OUR WEALTH....
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...
HE CALLED THEM TOGETHER WITH THE WORKERS OF SIMILAR OCCUPATION, AND SAID: " MEN, YOU KNOW THAT WE HAVE OUR PROSPERITY BY THIS TRADE. 1. Here is the first attempt to organize the workers. All those wi...
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...
Acts 19:25 called G4867 them G3739 together G4867 (G5660) workers G2040 of G4012 occupation G5108 and G2532 said...
‘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...
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...
Acts 19:25. WHOM HE CALLED TOGETHER WITH THE WORKMEN OF LIKE OCCUPATION. ' with this sense of ‘spirit' Hence this _anthropological_ sense is rare compared with that which follows. (_c._) The _soteriol...
WHOM HE GATHERED TOGETHER (ους συναθροισας). First aorist active participle of συναθροιζω, old verb to assemble together (αθροος, a crowd), in the N.T. only here and Acts 12:12.WITH THE WORKMEN OF...
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...
2 Peter 2:3; Acts 16:19; Hosea 12:7; Hosea 12:8; Hosea 4:8;...
Wealth [ε υ π ο ρ ι α]. See on ability, ch. 11 29. Lit., welfare. Wealth is used by the A. V. in the older and more general sense of weal, or well - being generally. Compare the Litany of the English...
The workmen — Employed by him and them....