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STATUE

An object preserved in the temple of Artemis in Ephesus (Acts 19:35). The “statue” (NRSV) or “sacred stone that fell from heaven” (RSV) are paraphrases for Gk. diopetḗs, which occurs only here in the NT. Most scholars interpret this as a meteorite phenomenon, considered supernatural by the ancients. Livy spoke of such a stone in the Magna Mater brought from Pessinus to Rome ca. 204 b.c.e. (Urb. cond. 29.11.7). Such rocks became sacred cult objects: the image of Tauric Artemis (Euripides Iph. A. 91, 1395); Ceres at Enna, Sicily (Cicero Verr. 2.7.72.187); El Gabal of Emesa (Herodotus Hist. 5.3, 5); Athene (Pausanias Descr. Gr. 1.8.4; 1.26.4).

Gerald L. Stevens






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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