ACTS 19:35 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?”
'These men you have brought here have neither robbed temples nor blasphemed our goddess' — The clerk's defense of Paul's companions acknowledges their juridical innocence: no temple robbery (hierosulia) nor goddess-blaspheming occurred. Legal procedure demands evidence.
Church Fathers on Acts 19:35
And when the town clerk had appeased the people, he said, You men of Ephesus, what man is there that knows not how that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter? Acts 19:35 As if the thing were not palpable. With this saying first he extinguished their wrath. And of the Diopetes. There was another sacred object (ἱ ερὸν) that was so called. Either he means the piece of burnt earth or her image. This…
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