25Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
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And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. …
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: …
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-41)I. Paul is here brought into some trouble at Ephesus, just when he is forecasting to go thence, and to cut out work for himself elsewhere. See here, 1. How he laid his purpose of going to other places, Acts 19:21 , 22 . He was a man of vast designs for God, and was for making his influences as widely diffusive as might be. Having spent above two years at Ephesus, (1.) He designed a visit to the ch…
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