Seeing then that these things cannot be gainsaid, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rash.
He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; But he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Go not forth hastily to strive, Lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, When thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.
Because they were rebellious against his spirit, And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
And when the townclerk had quieted the multitude, he saith, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there who knoweth not that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
For ye have brought hither these men, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.
traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;