ACTS 19:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.”
Soon the whole city was in an uproar — The people seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's traveling companions from Macedonia, and all of them rushed into the theater — The mob mentality (holos he polis, the whole city) crescendos; Paul's companions suffer proxy violence. The theater (theatron) becomes the civic amphitheater where decisions are rendered.
Church Fathers on Acts 19:27
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at naught; but also, that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships. And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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