ACTS 19:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.”
The city clerk (grammateus, town clerk/secretary) quieted the crowd and said: 'Fellow Ephesians, doesn't all the world know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?' — The town clerk's rhetorical skill emphasizes Ephesus's privileged guardianship (neōkoron, temple-keeper) of Artemis's cult. The 'image fallen from heaven' (diopetes, divinely sent or fallen from Zeus) asserts Artemis's cosmic origins.
Church Fathers on Acts 19:33
And certain of the Asiarchs, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre Acts 19:31 to a disorderly populace and tumult. And Paul complies, for he was not vainglorious, nor ambitious. Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused. Such is the nature of the multitude: it recklessly follows, like fire when it has fallen upon fuel; and the more part knew not wherefore they had come…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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