Teks -- Acts 19:26 (NET)

19:26 And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Act 19:26 - At Ephesus

At Ephesus ( Ephesou ).

Genitive of place as also with Asias (Asia). Cf. Robertson, Grammar , pp. 494f.

Robertson: Act 19:26 - This Paul

This Paul ( ho Paulos houtos ).

Contemptuous use of houtos .

Robertson: Act 19:26 - Hath turned away

Hath turned away ( metestēsen ).

Changed, transposed. First aorist active indicative, did change. Tribute to Paul’ s powers as a preacher borne out by Luke’ s record in Act 19:10. There may be an element of exaggeration on the part of Demetrius to incite the workmen to action, for the worship of Artemis was their wealth. Paul had cut the nerve of their business. There had long been a Jewish colony in Ephesus, but their protest against idolatry was as nothing compared with Paul’ s preaching (Furneaux).

Robertson: Act 19:26 - Which are made with hands

Which are made with hands ( hoi dia cheirōn ginomenoi ).

Note the present tense, made from time to time. No doubt Paul had put the point sharply as in Athens (Act 17:29). Isaiah (Isa 44:9-17) had pictured graphically the absurdity of worshipping stocks and stones, flatly forbidden by the Old Testament (Exo 20:4; Psa 135:15-18). The people identified their gods with the images of them and Demetrius reflects that point of view. He was jealous of the brand of gods turned out by his factory. The artisans would stand by him on this point. It was a reflection on their work.

Wesley: Act 19:26 - Saying, that they are not gods which are made with hands

This manifestly shows, that the contrary opinion did then generally prevail, namely, that there was a real Divinity in their sacred images. Though some of the later heathens spoke of them just as the Romanists do now.

JFB: Act 19:24-26 - silver shrines for

"of"

JFB: Act 19:24-26 - Diana

Small models of the Ephesian temple and of the shrine or chapel of the goddess, or of the shrine and statue alone, which were purchased by visitors as memorials of what they had seen, and were carried about and deposited in houses as a charm. (The models of the chapel of our Lady of Loretto, and such like, which the Church of Rome systematically encourages, are such a palpable imitation of this heathen practice that it is no wonder it should be regarded by impartial judges as Christianity paganized).

JFB: Act 19:24-26 - gain to the craftsmen

The master-artificers.

JFB: Act 19:26 - ye see and hear

The evidences of it were to be seen, and the report of it was in everybody's mouth.

JFB: Act 19:26 - that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath . . . turned away much people

Noble testimony this to the extent of Paul's influence!

JFB: Act 19:26 - saying that they be no gods which are made with hands

The universal belief of the people was that they were gods, though the more intelligent regarded them only as habitations of Deity, and some, probably, as mere aids to devotion. It is exactly so in the Church of Rome.

Clarke: Act 19:26 - This Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people

This Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people - From the mouth of this heathen we have, in one sentence, a most pleasing account of the success with which God had blessed the labors of the apostles: not only at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, they had persuaded and converted much people; for they had insisted that they could be no gods which are made with hands; and this the common sense of the people must at once perceive.

TSK: Act 19:26 - that not // that they // made

that not : Act 19:10,Act 19:18-20; 1Co 16:8, 1Co 16:9; 1Th 1:9

that they : Act 14:15, Act 17:29; Psa 115:4-8, Psa 135:15-18; Isa 44:10-20, Isa 46:5-8; Jer 10:3-5, Jer 10:11, Jer 10:14, Jer 10:15; Hos 8:6; 1Co 8:4, 1Co 10:19, 1Co 10:20, 1Co 12:2; Gal 4:8

made : Act 19:35

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Act 19:26

He tells them indeed what was St. Paul’ s doctrine; but he conceals the reasons of his doctrine; for there can be nothing more evident to any considering man, than that there is but one God who made all things; as Psa 115:3,4 Jer 10:10 .

Gill: Act 19:26 - Moreover, ye see and hear // that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people // saying, that they be no gods which are made with hands

Moreover, ye see and hear,.... Demetrius appeals to their senses of seeing and hearing; they saw what was done in their own city, and they had heard how things were elsewhere; they might believe what they saw with their eyes, and they had reason to depend upon the report which was brought to their ears:

that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people; by "all Asia" is meant Ionia, that part of Asia, of which Ephesus was the metropolis; from whence great multitudes came to Ephesus, and heard Paul in the school of Tyrannus, Act 19:10 so that not only many in the city of Ephesus, but even in almost every city and town of Asia, had heard and received the Gospel preached by Paul; of whom Demetrius speaks very contemptibly, as if he was a worthless vagabond fellow, who had the art of persuading and deluding people; he prevailed upon them to believe in Christ whom he preached, and turned away much people from the worshipping of idols, to the living God:

saying, that they be no gods which are made with hands; such as was their Diana, and the images of her, which these workmen made; and consequently if his doctrine prevailed, as it had much already, their trade would be worth nothing, and their livelihood be lost, which was the grand thing they had in view; for one would think they could never believe themselves, that the images they made were really gods; but whether they did or not, certain it is, that the apostle's doctrine was true, that such could not be gods, and which agrees both with reason and revelation.