Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 19:39
In a lawful assembly — In such a regular assembly as has authority to judge of religious and political affairs.
In a lawful assembly — In such a regular assembly as has authority to judge of religious and political affairs.
ACTS 19:39 peraite,rw {B} The comparative adverb peraite,rw (which appears nowhere else in the New Testament) is appropriate in this context, whereas peri. e`te,rwn is not. Probably the latter arose...
Verse 39. _BUT IF YE INQUIRE ANY THING CONCERNING OTHER MATTERS_] In which the safety of the state, or the national worship, is concerned, know that such a matter is not the business of the mob; it mu...
BUT IF WE INQUIRE - If you seek to determine any other matters than that pertaining to the alleged wrong which Demetrius has suffered in his business. OTHER MATTERS - Anything respecting public affai...
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....
ENQUIRE. seek diligently. Same word as in Acts 12:19; Acts 13:7. OTHER. Greek. _heteros._ App-124. DETERMINED. resolved. Greek. _epiluo._ Only here and Mark 4:34 (expounded). LAWFUL. Greek. ennomos,
_But if ye inquire any thing concerning other matters Rev. Ver. But if ye seek anything about other matters_. The "seeking" which the townclerk means is by a legal process. If the matter were of such...
HEATHEN OUTBREAK AGAINST ST PAUL AND HIS TEACHING...
ΕἸ ΔΈ ΤΙ ΠΕΡῚ ἙΤΈΡΩΝ ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΙ͂ΤΕ, _but if ye seek anything about other matters_. The ‘seeking’ alluded to is by a legal process. If the matter were of such a character as to come before the proconsul,...
_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...
ΠΕΡΑΙΤΈΡΩ (G4012) _сотр. от_ ΠΈΡΑ дальше, кроме того (BAGD). ΕΠΙΖΗΤΕΊΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΖΗΤΈΩ (G1934) искать, разыскивать, ΈΝΝΟΜΟΣ (G1771) законный. Термин относится к регулярному специальн...
BUT IF YE INQUIRE, &C.— "But _if_ the cause be not properly either civil or criminal, _and you are inquiring any thing concerning other matters_ relating to the common utility, or to religion, which m...
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...
But if ye inquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly. BUT IF YE INQUIRE, [ epizeeteite (G1934)] - are 'in pursuit of' ANYTHING CONCERNING OTHER MATTERS,...
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...
IT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN A LAWFUL ASSEMBLY. — Better, in _the_ lawful assembly. The argument is that, should the alleged grievance be one that called for legislative rather than judicial action, the...
εἰ δέ τι περὶ ἑτέρων : if we read περαιτέρω, _cf._ Plato, _Phædo_, p. 107 B, the meaning is anything further than an accusation against an individual, a public and not a personal matter: if they desir...
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...
But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a (r) lawful assembly. (r) He speaks of a lawful assembly not only to speak against the disordered tumult of the people...
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...
BUT IF YE INQUIRE ANYTHING CONCERNING OTHER MATTERS,.... Than what belongs to the craft and business of Demetrius, and the artificers: IT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN A LAWFUL ASSEMBLY; that is, called tog...
But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly. Ver. 39. _In a lawful assembly_] Such as this could not be. _Cum boni, cum probi coeunt, non est fac...
_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...
OTHER MATTERS; things which concern not individuals merely, but the public. LAWFUL ASSEMBLY; one not got up by tumult, but regularly called....
The end of the riot:...
BUT IF YE ENQUIRE ANYTHING CONCERNING OTHER MATTERS, IT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN A LAWFUL ASSEMBLY....
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...
BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER INQUIRY TO MAKE, IT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN THE LAWFUL ASSEMBLY. 1. This may not be a legal matter, something the courts should hear. It may fall into the category of a compl...
LAWFUL: Or, ordinary...
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...
OTHER MATTERS; relating to the good government of the city, or maintaining the established religion, which ought not in such a confused manner to be treated of, but in an assembly called by lawful aut...
Acts 19:39 But G1161 if G1487 any G5100 G4012 other G2087 make G1934 (G5719) determined G1956 ...
“But if you seek anything about other matters, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.” If it was a civil matter then they should wait for the regular assembly, where such matters could be dealt...
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 19:39. IT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN A LAWFUL ASSEMBLY. The crowd of citizens he was then addressing was simply a popular gathering; their decisions could have no weight. Such a meeting would only te...
ANYTHING ABOUT OTHER MATTERS (τ περαιτερω). Most MSS. here have τ περ ετερων, but B b Vulgate read τ περαιτερω as in Plato's Φαεδο. Several papyri examples of it also. It is comparative περαιτερος o...
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...
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