Thematic Bible: Goddess of the ephesians
Thematic Bible
Diana » Goddess of the ephesians
There was a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Diana, and brought rich profit to his workmen.
At length the recorder got them quiet. "Men of Ephesus," he said, "who here does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-guardian of the great Diana and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
"So there is danger not only that our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be brought into disrepute, and that she herself may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world now worships." After listening to this they were filled with rage, and cried out again and again, saying,