25 Whom he called together, with the workmen of like things, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our goods:

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 not Gods which are made with hands.

27 So that not only this thing is dangerous unto us, that this our [a]portion shall be reproved, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be nothing esteemed, and that it would come to pass that her magnificence, which all Asia and the world worshippeth, should be destroyed.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 19:27 As if he said, If Paul go on thus as he hath begun to confute the opinion which men have of Diana’s image, all this our gain will come to nought.

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