Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
having caught Gaius and Aristarchus—disappointed of Paul, as at Thessalonica (Acts 17:5-6). They are mentioned in Acts 20:4; Acts 27:2; Romans 16:23; I Corinthians 1:14; and probably III John 1:1. If it was in the house of Aquila and Priscilla that he found an asylum (see I Corinthians 16:9), that would explain Romans 16:3-4, where he says of them that "for his life they laid down their own necks" [HOWSON].
rushed . . . into the theatre—a vast pile, whose ruins are even now a wreck of immense grandeur [SIR C. FELLOWES, Asia Minor, 1839].
Great is Diana of the Ephesians—the civic cry of a populace so proud of their temple that they refused to inscribe on it the name of Alexander the Great, though he offered them the whole spoil of his Eastern campaign if they would do it [STRABO in HOWSON].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 19:29:
Acts 18:18
Acts 18:23
Acts 20:4-5
Acts 27:2
1 Corinthians 15:32
2 Corinthians 8:18
Galatians 1:2
Hebrews 10:33
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