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 {This our trade} (	outo to meros). Part, share, task,
job, trade. {Come into disrepute} (eis apelegmon elthein). Not
in the old writers, but in LXX and _Koin(825f). Literally,
reputation, exposure, censure, rejection after examination, and
so disrepute. Their business of making gods would lose caste as
the liquor trade (still called the trade in England) has done in
our day. They felt this keenly and so Demetrius names it first.
They felt it in their pockets. {Of the great goddess Artemis}
(	(8873) megal(8873) theas Artemidos). She was generally known as the
Great (h(8820)Megal(885c)). An inscription found at Ephesus calls her
"the greatest god" (h(8820)megist(8820)theos). The priests were eunuchs
and there were virgin priestesses and a lower order of slaves
known as temple-sweepers (
e(936b)oroi, verse  35 ). They had wild
orgiastic exercises that were disgraceful with their Corybantic
processions and revelries. {Be made of no account} (eis outhen
logisth(886e)ai). Be reckoned as nothing, first aorist passive
infinitive of logizomai and eis. {Should even be deposed of
her magnificence} (mellein te kai kathaireisthai t(8873)
megaleiot(8874)os aut(8873)). Note the present infinitive after
mellein, ablative case (so best MSS.) after kathaire(935c), to
take down, to depose, to deprive of. The word megaleiot(8873)
occurs also in  Lu 9:43  (the majesty of God) and in  2Pe 1:16 
of the transfiguration of Christ. It is already in the LXX and
Deissmann (_Light from the Ancient East_, p. 363) thinks that the
word runs parallel with terms used in the emperor-cult. {All Asia
and the world} hol(8820)(h(8829) Asia kai (h(8829) oikoumen(885c). See  11:28 
for same use of oikoumen(885c). An exaggeration, to be sure, but
Pausanias says that no deity was more widely worshipped. Temples
of Artemis have been found in Spain and Gaul. _Multitudo
errantium non efficit veritatem_ (Bengel). Even today heathenism
has more followers than Christianity. To think that all this
splendour was being set at naught by one man and a despised Jew
at that!

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