ACTS 19:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.”
A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly (demosiai, in public). When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas — The book-burning scene signals radical commitment: magical scrolls (perierga, from periergos, unnecessarily curious or intrusive) represent superstitious practices abandoned for Christian faith. The monetary valuation (50,000 drachmas, roughly 50,000 day's wages for laborers) measures the spiritual sacrifice's magnitude.
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