Curious arts; cunning, adroit practices of jugglery and deception.
Books; those which taught the way to practise these arts. When men are truly converted to God and obey his will, they will forsake their former wicked practices, however popular or gainful; and all that property which cannot be made useful to mankind they will destroy.
Verse Acts 19:19. _WHICH USED CURIOUS ARTS_] ταπεριεργα. From the use of this word in the Greek writers, we know that it signified _magical_ arts, _sorceries, incantations_, c. Ephesus abounded with...
CURIOUS ARTS - Arts or practices requiring skill, address, cunning. The word used here (περίεργα perierga) denotes properly “those things that require care or skill,” and was thus applied to the arts...
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...
MIRACLES, EXORCISMS, BURNING OF BOOKS OF MAGIC. Peter's shadow cured the sick (Acts 5:15); Paul's minor articles of clothing do the same, according to the widespread belief of antiquity in the indirec...
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....
Some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists tried naming the name of Jesus over those who had evil spirits. They said, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches." There were seven sons of a certain Scaeva,...
USED. practised. Greek. _prasso._ CURIOUS ARTS. Greek. _periergos._ Only here and 1 Timothy 5:13. The word means "going beyond that which is legitimate". The kindred verb only in 2 Thessalonians 3:11...
_Many also of them which used curious arts_ The Greek has not the same word for "many" here, as in the previous verse. To mark this the _Rev. Ver._has here "not a few." The "curious arts" were magic,...
ἹΚΑΝΟῚ ΔῈ ΤΩ͂Ν ΤᾺ ΠΕΡΊΕΡΓΑ ΠΡΑΞΆΝΤΩΝ, _and not a few_ (so R.V. to make a distinction from the πολλοί of Acts 19:18) _of them which used curious arts_. The τὰ περίεργα were magic, jugglery and all such...
PAUL PREACHES TO THE JEWS FIRST AND AFTERWARDS TO THE GENTILES. THE WORD OF GOD PREVAILS MIGHTILY...
_BOOKS ABOUT WITCHCRAFT WERE BURNED ACTS 19:11-20:_ God blessed Paul with the power to work great miracles. Many sick people were healed and evil sprits were cast out. Some vagabond Jews took it upon...
ΠΕΡΊΕΡΓΟΣ (G4021) магические предметы. Также термин для обозначения магического заклинания (BS, 323; BAGD; DPL, 580-83; ВВС; MM; NDIEC, 1:47-49; 6:109-96; GMP; о широко известных "ефесских письменах...
DISCOURSE: 1795 GENUINE REPENTANCE Acts 19:18. _And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and turned...
AND MANY THAT BELIEVED CAME, &C.— Exorcisms and incantations had been very much practised at Ephesus: the Gentiles there imagined that Diana, or the moon, presided over their incantations; but upon th...
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 18...
Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. MANY ('A CO...
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...
MANY OF THEM ALSO WHICH USED CURIOUS ARTS... — The Greek word expresses the idea of superstitious arts, _overbusy_ with the supposed secrets of the invisible world. These arts were almost, so to speak...
ἱκανοὶ δὲ : to be referred probably to the magicians, as the previous verse refers to their dupes: a Lucan word, see above on Acts 8:11. τὰ περίεργα : “curious,” Wyclif and A. and R.V. (“magical,” R.V...
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...
Magnifying Jesus' Name God caused some great miracles to be worked through Paul. Even pieces of cloth, like a handkerchief or apron, which had touched his body could be placed on the body of the sick...
Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all [men]: and they counted the price of them, and found [it] (i) fifty thousand [pieces] of silver. (i)...
Curious arts. By which are here meant books of divination and magic art, to which study the Ephesians were much addicted. The price of the books burnt, amounting to a great sum, even computing the 50,...
Here we see the devil's preachers who had been converted to God under the preaching of Paul making a bon-fire of their valuable theological books, estimated at five thousand dollars. There are wagon-l...
And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. (9) But when divers were hardened, and believed not,...
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...
_HOME READING_ Many … brought their ‘together, and burned them in the sight of all.’ Acts 19:19 (R.V.) One of the results of the preaching of St. Paul was the abandonment by his converts of those ‘...
− 19._Who used curious crafts. _Luke doth not only speak of magical jugglings, but of frivolous and vain studies, whereof the more part of men is for the most part too desirous. For he useth the word,...
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...
MANY ALSO OF THEM WHICH USED CURIOUS ARTS..... Magic arts, soothsaying, necromancy, conjuration, and the like, being convinced of the folly and wickedness of them: BROUGHT THEIR BOOKS TOGETHER; by wh...
Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all _men_ : and they counted the price of them, and found _it_ fifty thousand _pieces_ of silver. Ver. 1...
_And this_ Acknowledgment of the divine authority of Jesus and Paul, made in the absence of both; or this fact, concerning the possessed man, thus prevailing against the sons of Sceva; _was known to a...
MANY OF THEM ALSO WHICH USED CURIOUS ARTS BROUGHT THEIR BOOKS TOGETHER, AND BURNED THEM BEFORE ALL MEN; AND THEY COUNTED THE PRICE OF THEM, AND FOUND IT FIFTY THOUSAND PIECES OF SILVER....
A further result of this event:...
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...
ALSO, MANY OF THOSE WHO HAD PRACTICED MAGIC BROUGHT THEIR BOOKS TOGETHER AND BURNED _THEM_ IN THE SIGHT OF ALL. AND THEY COUNTED UP THE VALUE OF THEM, AND _IT_ TOTALED FIFTY THOUSAND _PIECES_ OF SILVE...
"And not. few of them that practised magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver"Pra...
13-20 It was common, especially among the Jews, for persons to profess or to try to cast out evil spirits. If we resist the devil by faith in Christ, he will flee from us; but if we think to resist h...
Thus their good works justified their faith, without which it had been dead, JAMES 2:24,26. CURIOUS ARTS; or rather idle and vain arts, as judicial astrology, calculating nativities, and all magical a...
Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book I much more ignorant (than ours) they had disclosed certain well-concealed material substances, and several not well-revealed scientific arts-if it is true tha...
Acts 19:19 Also G1161 many G2425 practiced G4238 (G5660) magic G4021 brought G4851 books G976 together G4851 ...
PAUL'S CONTINUING MINISTRY IN EPHESUS (19:8-20). Meanwhile we are reminded that Paul's' ministry continues in Ephesus in the proclamation of the Kingly Rule of God (compare Acts 1:3; Acts 8:12; Acts 1...
‘And not a few of those who practised magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all, and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.'...
Acts 19:19. MANY OF THEM ALSO WHICH USED CURIOUS ARTE. This specifies the practices of some of these professing believers, notwithstanding their professions of faith. Many of these nominal Christians,...
NOT A FEW OF THEM THAT PRACTISED CURIOUS ARTS (ικανο των τα περιεργα πραξαντων). Considerable number of the performers or exorcists themselves who knew that they were humbugs were led to renounce th...
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...
ALL THE JEWS AND GENTILES. Ephesus was a center of magic and the black arts. This happening would have a strong effect on those who sold magic charms, etc., and would honor the Christ whom Paul preach...
_And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds._ THE RIGHT CONFESSION I. Its root: faith. II. Its motive: repentance. III. Its fruit: obedience. (_K. Gerok._) CONVERSION “And...
_And he welt into the synagogue._ PAUL’S MINISTRY AT EPHESUS I. Wonderful preaching. 1. Manner of the preaching. (1) It was bold (Act 4:31; 2 Corinthians 7:4; Philippians 1:14). (2) It was logical...
_While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul … came to Ephesus._ --Ephesus was the third capital and starting point of Christianity At Jerusalem Christianity was born in the cradle of Judaism; Antioch had been...
BONFIRES Not a few of them that practiced unusual arts brought their books together, and burned them in the sight of all: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of si...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 19:19 The Greco-Roman world believed in magical incantations and spells (see note on 13:6). They often collected them into BOOKS that sold for large sums. PIECES OF SILVER
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 19:13. VAGABOND.—_I.e._, wandering about, or strolling JEWS, EXORCISTS, by profession (compare Matthew 12:8). “They appear to have regarded Paul as one of their own class, but...
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 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Samuel 28:7; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Acts 13:6;...
Curious arts [τ α π ε ρ ι ε ρ γ α]. The word means, literally, overwrought, elaborate, and hence recondite or curious, as magical practices. Only here and 1 Timothy 5:13, in its original sense of thos...
Curious arts — Magical arts, to which that soft appellation was given by those who practised them. Ephesus was peculiarly famous for these. And as these practices were of so much reputation there, it...