ACTS 19:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 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.
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