at these words, they were fir'd with indignation, and cry'd out, "great is Diana of the Ephesians."

but when they knew he was a Jew, they cry'd out one and all for the space of two hours, "great is Diana of the Ephesians."

at length the town-clerk appeased the people, and thus began, "who is there, O Ephesians, that does not know, that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Diana, and of her statue, which fell from heaven:

(for having seen Trophimus an Ephesian with him in the city, they imagin'd Paul had conducted him into the temple.)