Saying, that they are not gods which are made with hands — This manifestly shows, that the contrary opinion did then generally prevail, namely, that there was a real Divinity in their sacred images. Though some of the later heathens spoke of them just as the Romanists do now.
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 19:26. _THIS PAUL HATH PERSUADED AND TURNED AWAY MUCH PEOPLE_] Prom the mouth of this heathen we have, in one sentence, a most pleasing account of the success with which God had blessed th...
YE SEE AND HEAR - You see at Ephesus, and you hear the same in other places. THROUGHOUT ALL ASIA - All Asia Minor; or perhaps the province of which Ephesus was the capital. See the notes on Acts 2:9....
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...
MOREOVER. And. SEE. behold. Greek. _theoreo._ App-133. ALMOST. See Acts 13:44. TURNED AWAY. Greek. _methistemi._ See note on Acts 13:22. MUCH PEOPLE. a great crowd (Greek. _ochlos)_. GODS. App-98...
_Moreover ye see and hear_ Better, AND _ye_, &c. They were eyewitnesses of what had taken place in Ephesus, and the falling-off in the demand would be made known from all the country round, for the pr...
HEATHEN OUTBREAK AGAINST ST PAUL AND HIS TEACHING...
ΚΑῚ ΘΕΩΡΕΙ͂ΤΕ ΚΑῚ�, _and ye see and hear_. Of what had happened in Ephesus they were eyewitnesses, while the falling-off in the demand for their wares would be brought to their knowledge from all side...
_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...
ΘΕΩΡΕΊΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΘΕΩΡΈΩ (G2334) видеть. 'ΕΦΈΣΟΥ _gen. от_"ΕΦΕΣΟΣ (G2181). _Gen._ места, в Ефесе (RWP; RG, 494; Μ, 73). ΣΧΕΔΌΝ (G4975) почти, ΟΎΤΟΣ (G3778) этот. Используется для выраже...
THAT NOT ALONE AT EPHESUS, &C.— _That this Paul has persuaded great numbers of people, not only of Ephesus, but of almost all_ the provinces of _Asia,_ as they have occasionally visited us; _and has t...
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...
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: M...
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...
ALL ASIA] The Temple had been built by contributions from the whole of Asia....
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 ALONE AT EPHESUS, BUT ALMOST THROUGHOUT ALL ASIA. — The language of Demetrius, though, perhaps, betraying the exaggeration of alarm, confirms the statement of Acts 19:10 as to the extent of St. Pa...
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...
οὐ μόνον … ἀλλὰ : _non modo … sed._ σχεδὸν, Acts 13:44, we cannot take the genitive with ὄχλον, as Hackett suggests. Ἀσίας : the Roman province, so Ramsay, _St. Paul_, p. 278, where he corrects his fo...
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...
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...
MOREOVER, YE SEE AND HEAR,.... Demetrius appeals to their senses of seeing and hearing; they saw what was done in their own city, and they had heard how things were elsewhere; they might believe what...
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: Ver....
_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...
TURNED AWAY MUCH PEOPLE; turned many from the worship of idols. The gospel, in proportion as it prevails, will render profitless all those trades and employments which demoralize and injure mankind. I...
MOREOVER, YE SEE AND HEAR THAT NOT ALONE AT EPHESUS, BUT ALMOST THROUGHOUT ALL ASIA THIS PAUL HATH PERSUADED AND TURNED AWAY MUCH PEOPLE, SAYING THAT THEY BE NO GODS WHICH ARE MADE WITH HANDS,...
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...
MOREOVER YOU SEE AND HEAR THAT NOT ONLY AT EPHESUS, BUT THROUGHOUT ALMOST ALL ASIA, THIS PAUL HAS PERSUADED AND TURNED AWAY MANY PEOPLE, SAYING THAT THEY ARE NOT GODS WHICH ARE MADE WITH HANDS. 1. Ch...
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...
He tells them indeed what was St. Paul's doctrine; but he conceals the reasons of his doctrine; for there can be nothing more evident to any considering man, than that there is but one God who made al...
Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle For at Ephesus also they seized Gaius and Aristarchus instead of Paul, and rustled to the theatre, these being Paul's companions in travel[50]...
Acts 19:26 Moreover G2532 see G2334 (G5719) and G2532 hear G191 (G5719) that G3754 not G3756 only...
“And you see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they are no gods, which are made with hands.” Then he...
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...
AT EPHESUS (Εφεσου). Genitive of place as also with Ασιας (Asia). Cf. Robertson, _Grammar_, pp. 494f.THIS PAUL (ο Παυλος ουτος). Contemptuous use of ουτος.HATH TURNED AWAY (μετεστησεν). Changed,...
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 Corinthians 10:19; 1 Corinthians 10:20; 1 Corinthians 12:2; 1 Corinthians 16:8;...