26-29.
καὶ ἡ οἰκουμένη σέβεται.
θυμοῦ,] ἔκραζον, λέγοντες. Μεγάλη ἡ "Αρτεμις ᾿Εφεσίων.
28. ᾽Ακούσαντες δὲ καὶ γενόµενοι πλήρεις
20. kai?
ἐπλήσθη ἡ πόλις ὅλη συγχύσεως: ὥρμησάν τε ὁμοθυμαδὸν εἰς τὸ θέατρον, συναρπάσαντες Γάϊον καὶ ᾿Αρίσταρχον Μακεδόνας, συνεκδή-
1 After θυµον D 137, Syr. H. mg. add Spapovres εις την αµφοδον, so Blass,
Hilg. ; see Ramsay, C. R. Ε., p. 153.
Mey. η Ap. om. D', Ramsay emphasises, St.
Paul, p. 274; C. R. Ε., u. s., see note in comment.
3 After και, B reads after D!, Gig., Syr. Pesh. σννεχνθη ολη η πολις (αισχυνης) ; D reads αισχ., which Blass rejects; apparently for Lat. ‘‘ confusione,’’ see Blass, p. xx. ; “ confusio,” common rendering of αισχυνη, Harris, Study in Codex Beza, p.
106; D prob. conflate; see also Corssen, G. G. A
fusio, Phil. iii. 19, Heb. xii. 12.
45; Greek Inscrip. at British Museum, iii., 1890, and for a complete account of the temple, its structure, and literature relating to its history and site, B.D.?, “Ephesus”. So sumptuous was the magnificence of this sanctuary that it could be said 6 τῆς ᾿Αρτέμιδος ναὸς ἐν ᾿Εφέσῳ µόνος ἐστὶ θεῶν οἶκος, Philo Byz., Spect. Mund., 7, and the sun, so the say- ing ran, saw nothing in his course more magnificent than Diana’s temple.—eis οὐδὲν λογ., cf. for a similar phrase LXX, Isa. xl. 17, Wisdom iii. 17 and ix. 6 (eis om. S}), and Dan. Theod., iv., 32. The verb AoyiLopat is also frequent in St. Paul with εἷς and the accusative.—re καὶ, c/. xxi. 28, not correlative, but: ‘and that she should even,” etc., Simcox, Language of the New Testament, p. 163.—rhw µε- Υαλειότητα, see critical note, if we read the genitive, ‘‘and that she should even be deposed from her magnificence,” R.V., cf. Winer-Schmiedel, xxx., 6. Grimm- Thayer regards the genitive as partitive, aliquid de majestate ejus, as if it was in- conceivable that all her magnificence should be lost: so Meyer, Zéckler, Weiss, cf. Xen., Hellen., iv., 4,13; Diod. Sic., iv., 8. But Wendt (as against Meyer) regards τὸ ἱερόν as the subject; cf. 1 Tim. vi. 5. The word is used, Luke ix. 43, of the majesty of God, cf. 2 Pet. i. 16 (Friedrich, p. 30); in LXX, Jer. xl. (xxxiii.) 9; 1 Esd. 1. 5, iv. 40, Dan. vii. 27.—6An ἡ ᾿Ασία: ‘ multitudo errantium non efficit veritatem”: Bengel. The temple was built by contributions from the whole of Asia, tota Asta exstru- ente, Pliny, Nat. Hist., xvi., 40, so that the goddess was evidently held in venera- tion by the whole province, cf. ibid., Xxxvi., 21; Liv., i., 45. According to the testimony of Pausanias, iv., 31, 8; ¢f. Xen., Anab., v., 3, 4, no deity was more widely worshipped by private persons (Wetstein, Ramsay, Blass), see also
+» Ῥ. 430, 1896. αισχ. = con-
Apuleius, 2, quoted by Mr. Page from Wordsworth. For the way in which the imperial government allied itself with the Artemis worship and the revival of paganism in the second century, and the universal honour paid to Artemis by Greek and barbarian alike, cf. Greek Inscriptions of the British Museum (Hicks), ili., pp. 135, 145.- οἰκουμένη, see above on xi. 28. Plumptre points out that the language is almost identical with that of Apuleius (perhaps from this passage): ‘‘ Diana Ephesia cujus nomen unicum .. . totus veneratur orbis’’.
Ver. 28. ἔκραζον: “they cried con- tinuously,” imperfect, see addition in D. --Μεγάλη 4°A.: omitting 4 we have ap- parently the popular cry, or rather invocation: Great Artemis! as it was actually used in the cul/tus—the cry was not an argument against Paul’s doctrine, but rather a prayer to the goddess and queen of Ephesus, and so regarded it gives a vividness and naturalness to the scene, Ramsay, Church in the Roman Empire, p. 135 ff., and “ Diana,” µ. s., Ρ. 105; see D, critical note.
Ver. 20. συγχύσεως: the noun only here in Ν.Τ. (συγχέω: only in Luke, see above p. 238), in LXX, Gen. xi. 9, 1 Sam. v. 11, 1 Sam. xiv. 20, used in classical Greek in the sense of confusion, disturbance; τε, the immediate result was that they rushed (Weiss), ὁμοθυμαδὸν, see above i. 14, ‘‘with one accord,” uno animo, Vulgate (not simul).—ro θέατρον: no doubt the great theatre explored by Mr. Wood, Ephesus, pp. 73, 74, App. vi.; Lightfoot, Contemp. Κεύ., Xxxii., p. 293; the theatre was the usual place for public assemblies in most towns, Gf. ]ο5., Β. 7.,νῇ. 3,3: Lace, Ft8SE., 1.80 * Blass, in loco, and Wetstein, and aiso Pseudo-Heraclitus, Letter vii., 47, con- demning the Ephesians for submitting grave and weighty matters to the decision