Footprints of the Apostles, as traced by Saint Luke in the Acts : being sixty portions for private study and instruction in church . at Athens, or ofVenus at Paphos, it was made in heaven and hadfallen from the sky. Yet, further, the Temple had made Ephesus themetropolis of superstition, and besides the multitudeof priests and priestesses and ministers of every de-scription who waited at the altar, a great trade hadgrown up in the city to meet the needs of thecountless pilgrims who flocked to visit it. Thevery livelihood, then, of the inhabitants was im-perilled. S. Paul was on the eve of depa
Footprints of the Apostles, as traced by Saint Luke in the Acts : being sixty portions for private study and instruction in church . at Athens, or ofVenus at Paphos, it was made in heaven and hadfallen from the sky. Yet, further, the Temple had made Ephesus themetropolis of superstition, and besides the multitudeof priests and priestesses and ministers of every de-scription who waited at the altar, a great trade hadgrown up in the city to meet the needs of thecountless pilgrims who flocked to visit it. Thevery livelihood, then, of the inhabitants was im-perilled. S. Paul was on the eve of departing from Ephesuswhen the long-suppressed murmurs and indignations. John of the city broke out in open rebellion at his teach-Acts^; ing: There arose, S. Luke says, no small stirconcerning the Way. () One of the leadingmanufacturers, Demetrius by name, who mademodels of the Temple and images of Diana, in silverand other metals, for the pilgrims to carry away asmemorials of their visit, and struck medallions,which they wore as amulets, called together thedifferent guilds of artisans, in which history tells us XXIV. V. 21-41.] The Tztmult at Ephestis. 183 Ephesus abounded, as well as the small shopkeepersby whom their works were sold, and made a mostinflammatory speech upon the impending all such agitators, he appealed in the firstinstance to the self-interest of his audience. It hasbeen often said, even the hint at pecuniary loss of aserious nature will sometimes make a reasonableman wild with excitement. Here it filled a vastmultitude with uncontrollable frenzy. Not only atEphesus was the expedient tried, but again andagain in the earliest age, and with no little success;for there was no comparison between the materialadvantages that idol-worship, with all its pomp andcircumstance, and Christianity, in its primitivesimplicity, had to offer to their respective was true to the instincts of a fallennature when he based his appeal upon p
Size: 1288px × 1940px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublisherlondo, bookyear1897
