Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 19:24

24 Yǒu yī gè yín jiàng , míng jiào dǐ mǐ diū , shì zhìzào yà dǐ mǐ shén yín kān de , tā shǐ zhèyàng shǒu yì rén shēngyi fà dá .

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 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.

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 19:24 In-Context

22 Yúshì cóng bāngzhu tāde rén zhòng , dǎfa Tímótaì , Yǐlā du èr rén , wǎng Mǎqídùn qù . zìjǐ zànshí dĕng zaì yà xī yà .

23 Nàshí , yīnwei zhè dào qǐ de rǎoluàn bú xiǎo .

24 Yǒu yī gè yín jiàng , míng jiào dǐ mǐ diū , shì zhìzào yà dǐ mǐ shén yín kān de , tā shǐ zhèyàng shǒu yì rén shēngyi fà dá .

25 Tā jùjí tāmen hé tóngxíng de gōngrén , shuō , zhòng wèi , nǐmen zhīdào wǒmen shì yǐkào zhè shēngyi fà cái .

26 Zhè Bǎoluó búdàn zaì Yǐfúsuǒ , yĕ jīhū zaì yà xī yà quán dì , yǐnyòu míhuò xǔduō rén , shuō , rén shǒu suǒ zuò de bú shì shén , zhè shì nǐmen suǒ kànjian suǒ tīngjian de .