Hechos 19:24

24 Porque cierto platero que se llamaba Demetrio, que labraba templecillos de plata de Diana y producía no pocas ganancias a los artífices,

Hechos 19:24 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 19:24

For a certain man, named Demetrius, a silversmith
Who worked in silver, not in coining silver money, but in making silver vessels, in melting silver, and casting it into moulds, and forming it into different shapes; and particularly,

which made silver shrines for Diana;
who Diana was, (See Gill on Acts 19:27), these were not coins or medals of silver, struck by Demetrius, with the figure of the temple of Diana on them, nor images of Diana, as the Ethiopic version reads; but they were chaplets, or little temples made of silver, in imitation of the temple of Diana at Ephesus, with her image included in it; the words may be rendered, "silver temples": in some manuscripts it is added, "like little chests": which being sold to the people,

brought no small gain to the craftsmen:
who were of the same trade with him; masters of the same business, who employed others under them, as appears by what follows.

Hechos 19:24 In-Context

22 Y habiendo enviado a Macedonia a dos de sus ayudantes, Timoteo y Erasto, él se quedó en Asia por algún tiempo.

23 Por aquel tiempo se produjo un alboroto no pequeño por motivo del Camino.

24 Porque cierto platero que se llamaba Demetrio, que labraba templecillos de plata de Diana y producía no pocas ganancias a los artífices,

25 reunió a éstos junto con los obreros de oficios semejantes, y dijo: Compañeros, sabéis que nuestra prosperidad depende de este comercio.

26 Y veis y oís que no sólo en Efeso, sino en casi toda Asia, este Pablo ha persuadido a una gran cantidad de gente, y la ha apartado, diciendo que los dioses hechos con las manos no son dioses verdaderos.