19:35. And when the town clerk had appeased the multitudes, he said: Ye
men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not that the city of the
Ephesians is a worshipper of the great Diana and of Jupiter's
offspring?
19:36. For as much therefore as these things cannot be contradicted,
you ought to be quiet and to do nothing rashly.
19:37. For you have brought hither these men, who are neither guilty of
sacrilege nor of blasphemy against your goddess.
19:38. But if Demetrius and the craftsmen that are with him have a
matter against any man, the courts of justice are open: and there are
proconsuls. Let them accuse one another.
19:39. And if you inquire after any other matter, it may be decided in
a lawful assembly.
19:40. For we are even in danger to be called in question for this
day's uproar, there being no man guilty (of whom we may give account)
of this concourse. And when he had said these things, he dismissed the
assembly.
Acts Chapter 20
Paul passes through Macedonia and Greece. He raises a dead man to life
at Troas. His discourse to the clergy of Ephesus.
20:1. And after the tumult was ceased, Paul calling to him the
disciples and exhorting them, took his leave and set forward to go into
Macedonia.
20:2. And when he had gone over those parts and had exhorted them with
many words, he came into Greece:
20:3. Where, when he had spent three months, the Jews laid wait for
him, as he was about to sail into Syria. So he took a resolution to
return through Macedonia.
20:4. And there accompanied him Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, of Berea:
and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus: and Gaius of Derbe
and Timothy: and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
20:5. These, going before, stayed for us at Troas.
20:6. But we sailed from Philippi after the days of the azymes and came
to them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.
20:7. And on the first day of the week, when we were assembled to break
bread, Paul discoursed with them, being to depart on the morrow. And he
continued his speech until midnight.
And on the first day of the week. . .Here St. Chrysostom and many other
interpreters of the scripture explain, that the Christians even at this
time, must have changed the sabbath into the first day of the week,
(the Lord's day,) as all Christians now keep it. This change was
undoubtedly made by the authority of the church; hence the exercise of
the power, which Christ had given to her: for he is Lord of the
sabbath.
20:8. And there were a great number of lamps in the upper chamber where
we were assembled.
20:9. And a certain young man named Eutychus, sitting on the window,
being oppressed with a deep sleep (as Paul was long preaching), by
occasion of his sleep fell from the third loft down and was taken up
dead.
20:10. To whom, when Paul had gone down, he laid himself upon him and,
embracing him, said: Be not troubled, for his soul is in him.
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