ACTS 16:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,”
When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities — the slave owners' motivation is explicitly economic: losing the woman's fortune-telling income (elpis tou perissou, hope of profit) prompted their action. The phrase seized (epilambanō) and dragged (katasyrō) emphasizes violence and public humiliation.
Church Fathers on Acts 16:19
she besought us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us Acts 16:15: then look at her wisdom, how she importunes (δυσωπεἵ), the Apostles how full of humility her words are, how full of wisdom. If you have judged me faithful, she says. Nothing could be more persuasive. Who would not have been softened by these words? She did not request (or, claim) did not entreat simply: but she left them to decide,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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