. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . is well known that Asia was a procon-sular province; and accordingly we find procon-suls (A. V. deputies ) specially mentioned (). Again we learn from Pliny (v. 31) that Ephesuswas an assize-town; and in Acts xix. 38 we findthe court days alluded to as actually being held( the law is open ; margin the court-daysare kept) during the uproar. Ephesus itself wasa free city, and had its own assemblies and itsown magistrates. The senate is mentioned by Jo-sephus ; and St. Luke, in Acts xix., speaks of thedemos, i. e. the privileged order of citiz
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . is well known that Asia was a procon-sular province; and accordingly we find procon-suls (A. V. deputies ) specially mentioned (). Again we learn from Pliny (v. 31) that Ephesuswas an assize-town; and in Acts xix. 38 we findthe court days alluded to as actually being held( the law is open ; margin the court-daysare kept) during the uproar. Ephesus itself wasa free city, and had its own assemblies and itsown magistrates. The senate is mentioned by Jo-sephus ; and St. Luke, in Acts xix., speaks of thedemos, i. e. the privileged order of citizens (verses30, 33, A. V. the people) and of its customaryassemblies (ver. 39, A. V. a lawful assembly).We even find conspicuous mention made of one ofthe most important municipal officers of Ephesus,the Town-Clerk or keeper of the records, whomwe know from other sources to have been a personof great influence and responsibility. The theatrein Greek cities was often the place for large assem-blages (ver. 29, 31). At a meeting in the theatre. View of the Theatre at Ephesus.—;From Laborde.) at Cesarea, Agrippa I. received his death-stroke (). The theatre at Ephesus, the largest of itskind ever constructed, was 660 feet in diameter,and could accommodate 56,700 spectators (Fair-bairn). It is remarkable how all these political andreligious characteristics of Ephesus, which appearin the sacred narrative, are illustrated by inscrip-tions and coins. The coins of Ephesus are full ofallusions to the worship of Diana in various aspects.—That Jews were established there in considerablenumbers is known from Josephus, and might be in-ferred from its mercantile eminence ; but it is alsoevident from Acts ii. 9, vi. 9. It is here, and hereonly, that we find disciples of John the Baptist ex-plicitly mentioned after the ascension of Christ(xviii. 25, xix. 3). The case of Apollos (xviii. 24)is ao. exemplification further of the intercourse be-tween this place and Alexandria.—The first s
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