John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 19:37
37 For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess. Ver. 37. Blasphemers of your goddess ] This was false: but this politician held it lawful to redeem peace with a lie. Not so St Paul, who knew that after his departure from Ephesus grievous wolves would enter in,Acts 20:29; Acts 20:29 . And yet, because he could not stay to preach unless he would have restored some Pharisaical observations, and unless, for peace’s sake, he... read more
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 19:36
36 Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly. Ver. 36. Ye ought to be quiet ] Or, sedate, composed, kept within compass, "to do nothing rashly or headlongly:" Temeritas enim comitem την μετανοιαν εχει . read more