Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, you know that by this craft we have our wealth.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
then he brought the danger home to them, that we are in danger of falling from this our craft into starvation. Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at naught; but also, that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships. And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
