Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest you know not what to do in the end thereof, when your neighbor has put you to shame.
And when the town cleark had appeased the people, he said, You men of Ephesus, what man is there that knows not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
For you have brought here these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
Traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;