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Hechos 19:24

Listen to Hechos 19:24
24 Un platero llamado Demetrio, que hacía figuras en plata del templo de Artemisa,[a] proporcionaba a los artesanos no poca ganancia.

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.

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Hechos 19:24 In-Context

22 Entonces envió a Macedonia a dos de sus ayudantes, Timoteo y Erasto, mientras él se quedaba por algún tiempo en la provincia de Asia.
23 Por aquellos días se produjo un gran disturbio a propósito del Camino.
24 Un platero llamado Demetrio, que hacía figuras en plata del templo de Artemisa, proporcionaba a los artesanos no poca ganancia.
25 Los reunió con otros obreros del ramo, y les dijo:—Compañeros, ustedes saben que obtenemos buenos ingresos de este oficio.
26 Les consta además que el tal Pablo ha logrado persuadir a mucha gente, no solo en Éfeso sino en casi toda la provincia de Asia. Él sostiene que no son dioses los que se hacen con las manos.

Footnotes 1

  • [a] Nombre griego de la Diana de los romanos; también en vv. 27,28,34 y 35.
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