ACTS 19:37 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.”
'If there is anything further you want to bring up, it must be settled in a legal assembly' — The legality stipulation ('legal assembly,' ennomos ekklēsia) invokes civic law, not crowd passion. Institutional forms restrain violence.
Church Fathers on Acts 19:37
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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