Acts 19:39 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawfuld assembly. ”

• Acts 19:39 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  But if we inquire - If you seek to determine any other matters than that pertaining to the alleged wrong which Demetrius has suffered in his business. Other matters - Anything respecting publ...

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• Acts 19:39 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a (r) lawful assembly. (r) He speaks of a lawful assembly not only to speak against the disordered tumult of the peopl...

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• Acts 19:39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Tumult at Ephesus. A change of religion (for the Way, cf. Acts 9:2 ) bears hardly on certain trades. In ch. 16 the Gospel interfered with the trade of soothsaying; here the art of the silversmit...

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• Acts 19:39 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  enquire . seek diligently. Same word as in Acts 12:19 ; Acts 13:7 . other . Greek. heteros. App-124. determined . resolved. Greek. epiluo. Only here and Mark 4:34 (expounded). lawful ....

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• Acts 19:39 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But if ye inquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly. But if ye inquire any thing concerning other matters - In which the safety of the state, or the nati...

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• Acts 19:39 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  But if ye inquire, &c.— "But if the cause be not properly either civil or criminal, and you are inquiring any thing concerning other matters relating to the common utility, or to religion,...

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• Acts 19:39 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But if ye inquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly. But if ye inquire, х epizeeteite ( G1934 )] - are 'in pursuit of' Anything concerning...

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• Acts 19:39 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Ephesus 1-41. Paul at Ephesus. Opposition of the manufacturers of idols. St. Paul, leaving Antioch in S. Galatia (see Acts 18:23 ), approached Ephesus not by the usual level route leading through...

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• Acts 19:39 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  It shall be determined in a lawful assembly. — Better, in the lawful assembly. The argument is that, should the alleged grievance be one that called for legislative rather than judicial action, t...

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• Acts 19:39 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Lawlessness of Selfish Greed Acts 19:30-41 The theater of Ephesus still stands, and the writer of these words has spoken in its mighty enclosure, from the very spot where this town clerk-th...

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• Acts 19:39 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The result of the work of Apollos was manifest when Paul reached Ephesus. There he found a company of sincere disciples to Jesus as He had been revealed by John. To them Paul declared the truth in it...

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• Acts 19:39 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. (22) So he sent...

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• Acts 19:39 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But if ye inquire anything concerning other matters ,.... Than what belongs to the craft and business of Demetrius, and the artificers: it shall be determined in a lawful assembly ; that is, calle...

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• Acts 19:39 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly. Ver. 39. In a lawful assembly ] Such as this could not be. Cum boni, cum probi coeunt, non est...

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• Acts 19:39 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And when the town-clerk Greek, ο γραμματευς, the scribe; probably the proconsul's secretary, to whom the direction of the affairs of the city was committed; had appeased the people So far as to...

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• Acts 19:39 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Paul returned to Ephesus, as he had promised. Of course there was an assembly there already, as chapter 18:27 intimates; but he found certain disciples who, at his questioning, tell him they had not...

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• Acts 19:39 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Tumult at Ephesus.       21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Acha...

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• Acts 19:39 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Other matters; relating to the good government of the city, or maintaining the established religion, which ought not in such a confused manner to be treated of, but in an assembly called by lawful...

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• Acts 19:39 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  A Stirring in Ephesus On Account of the Name of Artemis (19:23-41). In considering what follows we should note two things about its context: · Firstly that it introduces the final section of Acts...

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• Acts 19:39 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 19:23 . The way .—See on Acts 9:2 . Acts 19:24 . Demetrius .—The name has been found in an inscription, exhumed in Ephesus and supposed (Hicks) to belong to A.D. 50–60,...

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• Acts 19:39 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Acts 19:1 . Paul came to Ephesus, a city of Ionia, built by the Amezones. Its temple of Diana was one of the seven wonders of the world; but Pompey plundered it of all its riches. This city is now...

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• Acts 19:39 - The Biblical Illustrator

  A certain man named Demetrius. Paul and Demetrius The application of these words to present day life is a task that might be assigned to a child. Demetrius never dies; his word is to be heard i...

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• Acts 19:39 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 19:1 Country for coasts, A.V.; found for finding, A.V. and T.R. The upper country (τὰ ἀνωτερικὰ μέρη); the inland districts of Galatia and Phrygia, through whi...

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• Acts 19:39 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The end of the riot:

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• Acts 19:39 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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• Acts 19:39 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  In a lawful assembly — In such a regular assembly as has authority to judge of religious and political affairs.

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