ACTS 19:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.”
He called them together, along with the workers in related trades, and said: 'You know, my friends, that we receive a good income from this business' — Demetrius's appeal to pecuniary interest ('good income,' euporeuomai, literally 'to prosper through business') exposes the economic substrate of religious opposition. Profit, not theology, drives the complaint.
Church Fathers on Acts 19:22
He sends Timothy and Erastus into Macedonia, but himself remains at Ephesus. Having made a long enough stay in that city, he wishes to remove elsewhere again. But how is it, that having from the first chosen to depart into Syria, he turns back to Macedonia? He purposed, it says, in the Spirit, showing that all (that he did) was done not of his own power. Now he prophesies, saying, I must also see Rome: perhaps to comfort them with the consideration of his not remaining at a…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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