Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 19:29

29 And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.

Tumults and noise▪ All conditions of men, high and low, prom[illegible: 1 letter]scuously being met in such uproars.

One born at Derbe, but living at Thessalonica; as Chap. 20.4.

Of whom we read, Chap. 27.2. Colos. 4.10.

A place or Structure built for publick uses; whence, 1. Their Sports or Plays in any publick solemnity were beheld. 2. Their Speech or Orations in their common Assemblies were heard. 3. Where they punished also their Malefactors; it being accommodated with [illegible: 1 word] steps or seat[illegible: 1 letter] higher than one another, and of vast exte[illegible: 1 letter]t for these [illegible: 1 word]. Hither, according to their custom, they resort, to [illegible: 1 word] any one would speak upon this occasion to them; or rather to get these Christians condemned and executed for their supposed Sacriledg and Blasphemy.