ACTS 19:36 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.”
'Therefore, if Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a grievance against anybody, the courts are open and proconsuls are available — Let them bring charges (epigō, to bring against) against one another there' — The clerk redirects commercial disputes toward proper legal venues: the courts and Roman proconsuls. Institutionalized justice supersedes mob violence.
Church Fathers on Acts 19:36
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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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