34-37.
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᾿Αρτέμιδος καὶ τοῦ Διοπετοῦς; 36. ἀναντιῤῥήτων 1 οὖν ὄντων τούτων,
δέον ἐστὶν Spas κατεσταλµένους ὑπάρχειν, καὶ μηδὲν προπετὲς
πράττει.
37. ἠγάγετε γὰρ τοὺς ἄνδρας τούτους, οὔτε ἱεροσύλους
1 αναντιρητων B*L, so W.H. (not Weiss).
Bishoprics of Phrygia, i., 66; St. Paul, pp. 281, 304; Hicks, Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum, iii., p. 154, and Wood’s Ephesus, App., Ῥ. 49, often with Asiarchs and proconsul; Lightfoot, Contemp. Review, p. 294, 1878. St. Luke’s picture therefore of the secretary as # man of influence and keenly alive to his responsibility is strikingly in accordance with what we might have expected. —tly γάρ ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος: “what man is there then?” etc. Ren- dall: the γάρ looks back to the action of the speaker in quieting the crowd, as if he would say that there is no need for this excitement, for all that you have said about your goddess is universally acknowledged. — νεωκόρον: ' temple- keeper,” R.V., ‘“‘a worshipper,” A.V., cultricem, Vulgate, lit., ‘“‘a temple- sweeper” (on derivation see Grimm- Thayer, sub v.), and so found in classical Greek, a sacristan, a verger, Lat., edi- tuus, cf. Jos., B. F., ν., 9, 4, Where= worshippers, οὓς 6 θεὸς ἑαντῷ γεωκόρους γεν. Thetitle ‘“‘ Warden of the Temple of Ephesus” was a boast of the city, just as other cities boasted of the same title in relation to other deities. It would seem that the title at Ephesus was generally used in connection with the imperial cultus ; in the period of this narrative, Ephesus could claim the title as Warden of one Temple of this cultus, and later on she enjoyed the title of Sts, τρὶς νεωκόρος, as the number of the temples of the imperial cultus increased. But there is ample justification from inscriptions for the mention of the title in the verse before us in connection with the Artemis worship. or references, Ramsay, “Ephesus,” Hastings’ B.D., Ρ. 722; Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, i., 58; Wendt, Blass, in loco ; Lightfoot, Cont. Rev., p. 294, 1878; Wood, Ephesus, App., p. 5ο.--τοῦ Δ., sc., ἄγαλμα: or some such word; the image was believed to have fallen from the sky (heaven, R.V. margin), like that of the Tauric Artemis, cf. Eur., [ph. T., 977, 1384, where we find οὐρανοῦ πέσηµα given as the equivalent and explanation of διοπετὲς ἄγαλμα (Herod., i., 11). The worship of Diana of the Ephesians was entirely Asian and not Greek, although the Greek colonists