Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 19:27

27 So that not onely this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnific[illegible: 3 letters]e should be destroyed, whom all Asia, and the [illegible: 1 word] worshippeth.

Not [illegible: 1 word] that we shall have no more to do, and be without work; but that it will be a reproach unto us to have had such an imployment.

This is made an aggravation to the loss of their all, that Religion should suffer too. How much more ought it to concern those who have a sure foundation for what they do profess?

This Temple is said to have been burnt down the same day that Alexander was born; and that it was two hundred and twenty years in re-building, at the charge of all Asia.

Tho the Romans might worship any God (of those multitudes) which they allowed; yet they might leave their Estates onely to a very few amongst them: but Diana, of the Ephesians, was one of those few▪ as also one of those twelve whom they accounted (Dii, or D[illegible: 1 letter]ae majorum Gentium) Gods and Goddesses of the highest quality, or first rank.