Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 19:37
Nor blasphemers of your goddess — They simply declared the one God, and the vanity of idols in general.
Nor blasphemers of your goddess — They simply declared the one God, and the vanity of idols in general.
ACTS 19:37 h`mw/n {B} The Textus Receptus, following the later manuscripts, replaces h`mw/n with u`mw/n, which copyists apparently regarded as suiting better the second person plural hvga,gete....
Verse 37. _THESE MEN - ARE NEITHER ROBBERS OF CHURCHES_] ιρεσυλους; Spoilers of sacred places. As his design evidently was to appease and conciliate the people, he fixed first on a most incontroverti...
FOR YE ... - Demetrius and his friends. The blame was to be traced to them. WHICH ARE NEITHER ROBBERS OF CHURCHES - The word “churches” we now apply to edifices reared for purposes of Christian worshi...
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...
ROBBERS OF CHURCHES. plunderers of temples. Greek. _hierosulos._ Only here. YOUR GODDESS. The texts read "our god". App-98....
_For … robbers of churches_ Better, ROBBERS OF TEMPLES with _Rev. Ver._As the temple at Ephesus had a great treasure-chamber, the offence might not be unknown among them. All that was placed under the...
ΤΟῪΣ ἌΝΔΡΑΣ ΤΟΎΤΟΥΣ, _these men_, Gaius and Aristarchus. ἹΕΡΟΣΎΛΟΥΣ, _robbers of temples_. As the temple at Ephesus had a great treasure-chamber, the offence might not be unknown among them. All that...
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...
ΉΓΆΓΕΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΓ (G71) вести, ΊΕΡΟΣΎΛΟΣ (G2417) грабитель храма, совершающий кощунство (Trebilco, "Asia" BAFCS, 2:354). ΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΟΎΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΈΩ (G987) кощунствов...
MEN, WHICH ARE NEITHER ROBBERS OF CHURCHES, &C.— It is very ungenerous in Orobio to insinuate from hence, that the fear of suffering kept St. Paul from declaring against the established idolatries her...
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 ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess. FOR YE HAVE BROUGHT HITHER THESE MEN, WHICH ARE NEITHER ROBBERS OF CHURCHES, [ hie...
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...
19:37 temple-plunderers, (g-10) As verb, 'commit sacrilege,' Romans 2:22 ....
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...
BLASPHEMERS] It is clear that St. Paul had expressed his views with gentleness and moderation....
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...
THESE MEN, WHICH ARE NEITHER ROBBERS OF CHURCHES. — Better, _robbers of temples._ It was not unusual for the writers of the Elizabethan age to apply the term, which we confine to Christian buildings,...
γὰρ : “for,” _i.e._, they had done something rash. τοὺς ἄνδρ. τούτους : Gaius and Aristarchus, ἱεροσύλους, “robbers of temples,” R.V., in A.V. “of churches,” the word “church” being applied as often i...
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...
_Nor of blasphemy against your goddess. St. John Chrysostom takes notice, that to calm the people, he says more than was true. (Witham)_...
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...
− 37._Men which are neither church-robbers. _He doth both truly and well deny that they be church-robbers; but he doth shortly after falsely define the kind of church-robbery to speak blasphemously ag...
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 YE HAVE BROUGHT HITHER THESE MEN,.... The Arabic version reads, "these two men"; that is, Gaius and Aristarchus, whom they had brought by force into the theatre to fight with wild beasts: WHICH A...
For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess. Ver. 37. _Blasphemers of your goddess_] This was false: but this politician held it l...
_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...
CHURCHES; temples....
FOR YE HAVE BROUGHT HITHER THESE MEN, WHICH ARE NEITHER ROBBERS OF CHURCHES, NOR YET BLASPHEMERS OF YOUR GODDESS....
The end of the riot:...
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 YOU HAVE BROUGHT THESE MEN HERE WHO ARE NEITHER ROBBERS OF TEMPLES NOR BLASPHEMERS OF YOUR GODDESS. 1. These men have not broken any laws. 2. They have not robbed the temple. 3. They have not e...
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...
NEITHER ROBBERS OF CHURCHES; for they had not entered into their temple. NOR YET BLASPHEMERS OF YOUR GODDESS; Paul had barely preached this truth amongst them, not upbraiding them for their idolatry;...
Acts 19:37 For G1063 brought G71 these G5128 men G435 here G71 (G5627) neither G3777 temples G2417 nor...
“For you have brought here these men, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.” For they needed to recognise that there was no real excuse for holding this meeting. The men...
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 19:37. NEITHER ROBBERS OF CHURCHES. This rendering is liable to mislead the modern reader. In the time when the English Version was made, it was by no means unusual to style a heathen temple a ‘c...
NEITHER ROBBERS OF TEMPLES (ουτε ιεροσυλους). Common word in Greek writers from ιερον, temple, and συλαω, to rob, be guilty of sacrilege. The word is found also on inscriptions in Ephesus. The Jews...
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...
_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...
_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 10:32; 2 Corinthians 6:3; Acts 25:8...
Robbers of churches [ι ε ρ ο σ υ λ ο υ ς]. The A. V. puts a droll anachronism into the mouth of the town - clerk of a Greek city. Render, rather, as Rev., robbers of temples....