KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

She is the Queen. . .the chaste Diana. . .[T]he last initiated Father of the church [Origen] died, carrying with him into his grave the secrets of the Pagan temples. . . Diana, the One Mother of God having her place in heaven. . .[H]er occult aspects and powers are numberless .21

God in his foreknowledge focused 18 scripture verses on Diana and the inroads her image had made into Ephesus and "the world" (Acts 19:24-41). A generation who will "worship the image" of the beast badly needs Paul's rebuke to these Ephesians: "[T]here be no gods which are made with hands" (Acts 19:26). 'New International' versions have dropped Diana, just as she is being picked up by a new international generation in need of undisguised truth. 34, 35 Artemis, the name used in new versions, was an exclusively Greek goddess and not the one Acts 19:27 says,". . .whom all Asia and the world worshipped." Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquity exposes the new version's error revealing that the goddess of Ephesus: . . .is no Greek divinity, but Asiatic. This is sufficiently shown by the fact that eunuchs were employed in her worship—a practice quite foreign to the Greek idea .22 The Oxford Classical Dictionary explains why the goddess at [T]he two cults had quite different origins. The cult of Diana migrated to Rome where the Aventine temple of Diana had a statue modeled after the Ephesian, not the Greek type. 23 Ephesus should be called Diana and not Artemis. NIV, NASB et al. KJV Diana Artemis Acts 19:24, 27, 28,

The Greek colonists identified her (the Ephesian goddess) with their own Artemis, because she was goddess of the