Acts Chapter 19 verse 39 Holy Bible
But if ye seek anything about other matters, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.
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But if any other business is in question, let it be taken up in the regular meeting.
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But if ye inquire anything concerning other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.
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But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.
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But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.
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`And if ye seek after anything concerning other matters, in the legal assembly it shall be determined;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 39. - Seek for inquire, A.V.; about for concerning, A.V.; settled for determined, A.V.; the regular for a lawful, A.V. If ye seek, etc (ἐπιζητεῖτε). Ἐπιζητεῖν means either "to make inquiry" or" to desire earnestly." The verb in the next clause, ἐπιλυθήσεται, it shall be "settled," or "solved," favors the first sense: "If you wish to inquire further into the spread of Paul's doctrine, and the best way of dealing with it, the question should be decided in an assembly of the δῆμος, legally convened." For περὶἑτέρων, about other matters, some manuscripts read περαιτέρω, further. The regular assembly. That summoned by a magistrate in the constitutional way. The Greek cities under the Roman government preserved their rights and liberties, and the privilege of popular assemblies. The town clerk, therefore, gave them their choice of either having the case tried before the proconsuls or having it laid before the ecclesia of the demos, if they wished it to be gone into on wider and deeper grounds.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(39) It shall be determined in a lawful assembly.--Better, in the lawful assembly. The argument is that, should the alleged grievance be one that called for legislative rather than judicial action, the matter would have to be referred to the regular meeting of the ecclesia, which the town-clerk had probably the right to summon. There they could present their gravamen, and petition for redress. Here also the inscriptions discovered by Mr. Wood (vi. 6, p. 50) give an interesting illustration of the official phraseology. An image of Athena is to be placed "above the bench where the boys sit," at "every lawful (or regular) ecclesia."
