This is a "STUDY" on how Paul was able to preach to a people totally engulfed in idolatry.
According to Acts Chapter 19, The Goddess Diana has been controlling the ideology and worship of not only that City but according to Demetrius, "All of Asia, and the whole world" .
This was a universal system that Paul had come to fight.
I believe the book of Ephesians is what Paul wrote to combat this system and help those escaping it to overcome.
I have not studied the book of Ephesians in this light. In fact, I have not studied it at all.
So, with this context in mind.. of Idolatry and Idol worship and how to draw one out through scripture,
That is what this study is about.
I will be looking at Historical accounts through other sources.. best I have at the moment is wikipedia or other sources I may come across.
I will be looking into this Diana itself from where it roots came, what the belief system was and how it became so entrenched in the Greek culture and became world renown.
Today the location is known as Turkey.
Ephesus = "permitted"
a maritime city of Asia Minor, capital of Ionia and, under the Romans, of proconsular Asia [see Ἀσία], situated on the Icarian Sea between Smyrna and Miletus. Its chief splendor and renown came from the temple of Artemis, which was reckoned one of the wonders of the world. It was burned down B. C. 356 by Herostratus, rebuilt at the common expense of Greece under the supervision of Deinocrates (Pausanias, 7, 2, 6f; Livy 1, 45; Pliny, h. n. 5, 29 (31); 36, 14 (21)), and in the middle of the third century after Christ utterly destroyed by the Goths. At Ephesus the apostle Paul founded a very flourishing church, to which great praise is awarded in Revelation 2:1ff. The name of the city occurs in Acts 18:19, 21, 24; Acts 19:1, 17, 26; Acts 20:16; 1 Corinthians 15:32; 1 Corinthians 16:8; Ephesians 1:1 (where ἐν Ἐφέσῳ is omitted by the Sinaiticus manuscript and other ancient authorities, [bracketed by T WH Tr marginal reading; see WHs Appendix at the passage; B. D. American edition under the word Ephesians, The Epistle to the]); 1 Timothy 1:3; 2 Timothy 1:18; 2 Timothy 4:12; Revelation 1:11, and (according to G L T Tr WH) Revelation 2:1. Cf. Zimmermann, Ephesus im 1. christl. Jahrh., Jena 1874; [Wood, Discoveries at Ephesus (1877)].
"Spiritual Warfare"
According to Acts Chapter 19, The Goddess Diana has been controlling the ideology and worship of not only that City but according to Demetrius, "All of Asia, and the whole world" .
This was a universal system that Paul had come to fight.
I believe the book of Ephesians is what Paul wrote to combat this system and help those escaping it to overcome.
I have not studied the book of Ephesians in this light. In fact, I have not studied it at all.
So, with this context in mind.. of Idolatry and Idol worship and how to draw one out through scripture,
That is what this study is about.
I will be looking at Historical accounts through other sources.. best I have at the moment is wikipedia or other sources I may come across.
I will be looking into this Diana itself from where it roots came, what the belief system was and how it became so entrenched in the Greek culture and became world renown.
Today the location is known as Turkey.
Ephesus = "permitted"
a maritime city of Asia Minor, capital of Ionia and, under the Romans, of proconsular Asia [see Ἀσία], situated on the Icarian Sea between Smyrna and Miletus. Its chief splendor and renown came from the temple of Artemis, which was reckoned one of the wonders of the world. It was burned down B. C. 356 by Herostratus, rebuilt at the common expense of Greece under the supervision of Deinocrates (Pausanias, 7, 2, 6f; Livy 1, 45; Pliny, h. n. 5, 29 (31); 36, 14 (21)), and in the middle of the third century after Christ utterly destroyed by the Goths. At Ephesus the apostle Paul founded a very flourishing church, to which great praise is awarded in Revelation 2:1ff. The name of the city occurs in Acts 18:19, 21, 24; Acts 19:1, 17, 26; Acts 20:16; 1 Corinthians 15:32; 1 Corinthians 16:8; Ephesians 1:1 (where ἐν Ἐφέσῳ is omitted by the Sinaiticus manuscript and other ancient authorities, [bracketed by T WH Tr marginal reading; see WHs Appendix at the passage; B. D. American edition under the word Ephesians, The Epistle to the]); 1 Timothy 1:3; 2 Timothy 1:18; 2 Timothy 4:12; Revelation 1:11, and (according to G L T Tr WH) Revelation 2:1. Cf. Zimmermann, Ephesus im 1. christl. Jahrh., Jena 1874; [Wood, Discoveries at Ephesus (1877)].
"Spiritual Warfare"