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26. καὶ θεωρεῖτε καὶ ἀκούετε, and ye see and hear. Of what had happened in Ephesus they were eyewitnesses, while the falling-off in the demand for their wares would be brought to their knowledge from all sides. The Christian preaching and preachers did not confine themselves to Ephesus.
οὐ μόνον Ἐφέσου ἀλλὰ σχεδὸν πάσης τῆς Ἀσίας, not alone at Ephesus, out almost throughout all Asia. Beside Ephesus itself we have only notices through St Paul’s writings of Churches founded at Colossæ, Laodicæa, and Hierapolis. But in the Apocalypse we find beside these, Pergamus, Smyrna, Thyatira, Sardis and Philadelphia, places whose position shews us that through about two-thirds of the coastline of Asia important centres of Christian life were formed before that book was written, and we cannot doubt that by St Paul and his fellow-workers the Gospel was preached in all that district. Hence the alarm of Demetrius.
ὁ Παῦλος οὗτος, this Paul. If we think of the bodily presence of St Paul which he himself always describes as insignificant, and which would be familiar to the hearers of Demetrius, we can fancy the scorn which would be thrown into the words as they fell from the angry lips of the probably stalwart craftsman.
πείσας μετέστησεν, hath persuaded and turned away, i.e. from their devotion to Artemis, and so from their purchase of shrines.