ACC ~ Acts 19 v27

THEIR RELIGION IS RIGHTLY THREATENED. BEDE: That is: Not only will our work be discredited as vain and not deserving of payment but indeed our religion too will be brought into disgrace, if Paul prevails with his teaching that idols are not gods and that it is an extraordinary stupidity on the part of the Gentiles not to be ashamed to worship those whom they acknowledge can be constructed or destroyed. COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 19.27.

DEMETRIUS KNEW BETTER. AMMONIUS: Demetrius knew that he was deceiving people by making temples and gods of silver for them. So he was afraid that his roguery and deception would be exposed through Paul’s true teaching. It must be noted that the true faith shined forth to such an extent, even though it had not yet conquered the world, that Demetrius was afraid that ultimately the temple of Artemis in Ephesus would be destroyed. He thus prophesied the temple’s destruction, which has come to pass. CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 19.25.