The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . a must havepossessed considerable resources, to have maintainedsuch an expensive branch of art, and therefore of someconsideration in the city of Philippi. 364 In the nineteenth chapter we have an account of asmgular tumult at Ephesus, raised at the instigation ofDemetrius, a silversmith, and the craftsmen of thatcelebrated city, who seem to have reaped considerableemolument by supplying silver shrines for the templeof the Paphian goddess; whom, it was said, Asia,and all the world w
The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . a must havepossessed considerable resources, to have maintainedsuch an expensive branch of art, and therefore of someconsideration in the city of Philippi. 364 In the nineteenth chapter we have an account of asmgular tumult at Ephesus, raised at the instigation ofDemetrius, a silversmith, and the craftsmen of thatcelebrated city, who seem to have reaped considerableemolument by supplying silver shrines for the templeof the Paphian goddess; whom, it was said, Asia,and all the world worshipped. An outcry was madeagainst the apostles, for bringing their goddess intodisrepute, or rather, doubtless, the craft by whichthey had their wealth. Amid this confusion, in orderto appease the populace, the town clerk proclaimed,that every body knew that Ephesus was a worshipper(rather neokopon—a distinction assumed by severalcities,) of the great goddess, Diana. We give thefac-simile of a coin of Ephesus, bearing the preciseword used by Luke, and which may be translatedtemple-keeper, or When Paul had returned from Asia to Jerusalem, hehad nearly become the victim of popular fury. Beingled into the castle, he prefaced his defence bystating, that he was a Jew of Tarsus, a city inCilicia—a citizen of no mean city We have given acoin of Tarsus ; and it bears sufficient evidence, fromthe architecture of the structure represented on it, andits designation of a metropolis, that it must have beena city of considerable distinction. Other coins, too. 365 afford palpable proof, that the fine arts, here, musthave been considerably advanced. The coins of Tarsusare remarkable, according to Froelick, ^^^=^^.^^53for a kind of perspective in the figures K^^^ftl^represented. We have incidental proofs fLp||j||jjjjll|j|jfcoy|in Pauls writings, that he was a native ^^^^| Jof Cilicia, from peculiar provincialisms ^^^^^^^^^^of expression, called Cilicisms. There is a remark,co
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