Acts 19:35

And when the city clerk had quieted the crowd, he said: " Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple guardian of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

1. Now a city official seeks to control the mob. He quiets the crowd.

2. Everyone knows about Diana. Just ask anyone. Ephesus is the city of Diana and guardian of the temple.

3. Adam Clarke writes, "The original image of the Ephesian Diana was supposed to have descended from heaven; which intimates that it was so old that no person knew either its maker or the time in which it was formed, and it was the interest of the priests to persuade the people that this image had been sent to them as a present from Jupiter himself."

4. B. W. Johnson comments, " It was a common superstition that some hideous image worshiped in a heathen temple had fallen from heaven. Some of them were meteoric stones, of others the origin was unknown, and the delusion was in part due to the deception of the priests. The Palladium of Troy, the Diana of Tauris, and the Pallas of Athena were all said to have fallen."