Ver. 25. περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα, cf. Luke x. 40, 41, for a similar use of περί with accusative, but see W. H., J. ο., and 2 Macc. xii. τ.---εὐπορία: wealth, or gain,
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46. καὶ θεωρεῖτε καὶ ἀκούετε ὅτι οὐ µόνον} Ἐφέσου, ἀλλὰ
σχεδὸν πάσης τῆς ᾿Ασίας ὁ Παῦλος οὗτος πείσας µετέστησεν ἱκανὸν
ὀκλον, λέγων ὅτι οὐκ εἰσὶ θεοὶ οἱ διὰ χειρῶν γινόµενοι.
27. οὐ
µόνον δὲ τοῦτο κινδυνεύει ἡμῖν τὸ µέρος eis ἀπελεγμὸν ἐλθεῖν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ τῆς μεγάλης θεᾶς ᾽Αρίέμιδος ἱερὸν εἰς οὐδὲν ” λογισθῆναι, µέλλειν τε καὶ καθαιρεῖσθαι τὴν µεγαλειότητα αὐτῆς, ἣν ὅλη ἡ “Agia
1 Before Έφεσου D prefixes ews, so Blass in β (comparing xxiii. 23), and Hilg. After οντος D! adds τις ποτε, Gig., ““nescio quem,” so Blass in B, comparing xvii. 7, where we have the same addition in Gig. and β text.
2 λογισθηναι S$BHLP, Chrys., so not only T.R., but Alford, R.V., Weiss, Wendt ; µελλειν SA-BD2EHLP, Chrys. ; τε ΝΑΕΕΡ, Sah., Boh., Syrr., P.H., Arm., in both cases R.V., W.H., Weiss, Wendt, as in T.R. Blass following ADE, Vulg. reads in β, λογισθησεται, and µελλει with A*D*, Vulg. But in D the whole passage is con- fused. την µεγαλειοτητα, but the gen. in ABE 13, 15, 18, 40, R.V., W.H., Weiss,
Wendt.
In B text Blass reads µελλει τε και καθαιρεισθαι η µεγαλειοτης αντης
ην ολη η A. following Gig., Par., Vulg., “‘ sed et destrui incipiet majestas ejus quam,” etc.; D reading “ lacunose et corrupte,” in the first part: αλλα καθερισθαι µελλει
(-ειν Db) η ολη A.
only here in N.T., in classical Greek “in different senses in different authori- ties,” Grimm-Thayer ; in LXX, 2 Kings xxv. 10, but in a different sense (see Hatch and Redpath’s references to its use by Aquila, Symm., and others). Rendall takes it of comfort and well-being, in the old English sense weal.
Ver. 26. οὐ µόνον . . « GAAa: non modo . . . δεᾶς--σχεδὸν, xiii. 44, we cannot take the genitive with ὄχλον, as Hackett suggests.—’Aglas : the Roman province, so Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 278, where he corrects his former interpreta- tion of the word in this passage in Church in the Roman Empire, p. 166; see above on Paul’s work outside Ephesus.—otros: contemptuous. — µετέστησεν, cf. Josh. xiv. 8. The testimony thus borne to the wide and effective influence of the Apostles even by their enemies is well commented on by St. Chrys., Hom., xlii., and see also below.
Ver. 27. TotTo... τὸ µέρος, SC., τῆς ἐργασίας ἡμῶν, ver. 25, Grimm- Thayer—this branch of their trade, which was concerned with the making of the shrines. Others take pépos = trade, the part assigned to οηΠ6.---κινδυνεύει: “the most sensitive part of ‘ civilised’ man is his pocket,” Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 277, and the opposition thus naturally came not from the priests as instigators of the riot against Paul, but from the fact that trade connected with the Artemis-worship was endangered; so at Philippi, '' when the masters saw that the hope of this was gone,” xvi. 19; see Ramsay, Chiirch in the Roman Empire, p. 1209 ff.,
as against Hicks. ‘‘ See how wherever there is idolatry, in every case we find money at the bottom of it, both in the former instance it was for money, and in the case of this man for money; it was not for their religion, because they thought that in danger; no, it was for their lucrative craft, that it would have nothing to work upon,” Chrys., Hom., xliii—eis ἀπελεγμὸν ἐλθεῖν: noun, not found either in classical Greek or in the LXX; the verb ἀπελέγχειν is found in 4 Macc. ii. rr (cf. Symm., Ps. cxix. 118), and ἐλεγμός is not uncommon in LXX, confutatio, repudiatio (for the phrase cf. Mark ν. 26), in contemptum venire, Wet- stein ; but in redargutionem venire, Vul- gate.—4AAa καὶ : the utilitarian aspect of the appeal stands first, but speciously seconded by an appeal to religious feel- ings (‘non tam pro aris ipsos quam pro focis pugnare,” Calvin).—rijs pey. θεᾶς ᾽Α.: St. Luke appears to have retained the precise title of the goddess, according to the witness of the inscription; ‘“ Diana” (Ramsay), Hastings’ B.D., p. 605, so Blass, in loco.—rd . . . ἱερν: the Temple of Artemis was burnt to the ground by the fanatic Herostratus in B.C. 356 on the night of the birth of Alexander the Great, but its restoration was effected with great magnificence, and it was regarded as one of the seven wonders of the world. Its dimensions are given by Pliny, xxxvi., 95. For re- ferences, and a description of its worship, see C. and H., p. 422, small edition; Renan, Saint Paul, p. 427; Ramsay, ‘« Diana,” η. 5.; Wood’s Ephesus, pp. 4-