Acts 19:35 (WEB)
When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?
Fathers and councils · 2
Sozomen
“The vergers and the priests, being unsupported by the multitude, brought out their most precious treasures, and the idols called διοπετῆ, and through these servitors, the gifts were drawn forth from the shrines and the hidden recesses in the temples.” — editor's note: i.e.“sent down from Jupiter.” Such were the Palladium of Troy, the Ancile at Rome, and “the image” of Diana, “which fell down from Jupiter,” mentioned in Acts…
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…eager to bring succour to the deity whom he worshipped; but when he saw the so-called god turned into powder he scourged the officers in charge of the temple, for he conjectured that the conflagration was due to some Christian.” — editor's note: νεωκόρους νεωκόρος is the word rendered “worshipper” in Acts xix. 35 by A.V. The R.V. has correctly “temple-keeper,” the old derivation from κορέω = sweep,…
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