Acts 19:19
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| Overview - Acts 19 | |
| 1 | The Holy Ghost is given by Paul's hands. |
| 8 | The Jews blaspheme his doctrine, which is confirmed by miracles. |
| 13 | The Jewish exorcists, |
| 16 | are beaten by the devil. |
| 19 | Conjuring books are burnt. |
| 21 | Demetrius, for love of gain, raises an uproar against Paul; |
| 35 | which is appeased by the townclerk. |
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Acts 19:19 (King James Version)
Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
- used
- 8:9-11 Acts 13:6 Acts 13:8 Exodus 7:11 Exodus 7:22 ; Deuteronomy 18:10-12 ; 1 Samuel 28:7-9 ; 1 Chronicles 10:13
- 2 Chronicles 33:6 ; Isaiah 8:19 ; Isaiah 47:12 Isaiah 47:13 Daniel 2:2
- curious
- [Periergos
,] curious, that is, magical arts, in which sense the word is used in the Greek writers. The study of magic was prosecuted with such zeal at Ephesus, that [Ephesios gramma ,] the Ephesian letters, certain charms, or words used in incantation, became much celebrated in antiquity. - and burned
- Genesis 35:4 ; Exodus 32:20 ; Deuteronomy 7:25 Deuteronomy 7:26 ; Isaiah 2:20 Isaiah 2:21 ; 30:22 Matthew 5:29 Matthew 5:30
- Luke 14:33 ; Hebrews 10:34
- fifty
- Probably Attic drachms; which at 7
- d. each, would amount to 1,562
- 10s. or at, 9d. each, to 1,875.