Acts 19:23
Now at that time there arose no small disturbance about the way of the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Facta est autem illo tempore turbatio non minima de via Domini.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- Ἐγένετο δὲ κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν ἐκεῖνον τάραχος οὐκ ὀλίγος περὶ τῆς ὁδοῦ.
Haydock's commentary
About the way of the Lord; that is, about Christian faith, and religion. (Witham)
A great source of these troubles that ensued, was the preaching of the gospel.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XLII on Acts xix. 21, 23
Acts XIX. 21, 23 “After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season. And the same time there arose no small stir about the Way.”
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XLII on Acts xix. 21, 23
(Recapitulation.) “After these things were ended,” it says, “Paul purposed in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem,” saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.” ( v. 21 .) He no longer speaks here after the manner of a man, or, He purposed to pass through those regions, without tarrying longer. Wherefore does he send away Timothy and Erastus? Of this I suppose he says, “Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone. He sent away,” it says, “two of those who ministered to him” ( 1 Thess. iii. 1 ), both to announce his coming, and to make them more eager. “But he himself tarried awhile in Asia.” ( v. 22 .) Most of all does he pass his time in Asia; and with reason: there, namely, was the tyranny, of the philosophers. (Afterwards) also he came and discoursed to them again. …