When the men heard this, they were enraged and began shouting, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
Paul lays vast designs for God, making his influence widely diffusive. He means to visit the churches he planted, rectify what is amiss, encourage what is good, then see the Christians at Rome, not for curiosity, but because their company is the city's true glory.
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Commenting on Acts 19:21-41
Some therefore cried one thing, and some another,.... Not in the church at Ephesus among the disciples, and friends of the apostle, as if they were divided in their sentiments about his going into the theatre, some being for it, and others against it; but the people that were gathered together in the theatre, these were not agreed about the reason of this tumult, some...
Verse 28. Were full of wrath. Were greatly enraged--probably at the prospect of losing their gains. Great is Diana, etc. The term great was often applied by the Greeks to Diana. Thus in Xenophon (Ephes. i.) he says, "I adjure you by your own goddess, the great (τηνμεγαλην) Diana of the Ephesians." The design of this clamour was doubtless to produce a persecution against Paul...