35And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
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And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. …
And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. …
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
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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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