Hechos 19:26

26 y veis y oís que este Pablo, no solamente en Efeso, sino a gran multitud de casi toda el Asia, ha apartado con persuasión, diciendo, que no son dioses los que se hacen con las manos

Hechos 19:26 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 19:26

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, ( Acts 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.

Hechos 19:26 In-Context

24 Porque un platero llamado Demetrio, el cual hacía de plata templecillos de Diana, daba a los artífices no poca ganancia

25 a los cuales, reunidos con los obreros de semejante oficio, dijo: Varones, sabéis que de esta ganancia tenemos nuestras riquezas

26 y veis y oís que este Pablo, no solamente en Efeso, sino a gran multitud de casi toda el Asia, ha apartado con persuasión, diciendo, que no son dioses los que se hacen con las manos

27 Y no solamente hay peligro de que este negocio se nos vuelva en reproche, sino también que el templo de la gran diosa Diana sea estimado en nada, y comience a ser destruida su majestad, la cual honra toda el Asia y el mundo

28 Oídas estas cosas, se llenaron de ira, y dieron alarido diciendo: ¡Grande es Diana de los efesios