If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, {\b let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.}
For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.\par
{\cf6 To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:\par\tab These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:
saying, {\cf6 What thou seest, write in a book and send {\i it} to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.}
And ye see and hear; that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands:
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 {\i image} which fell down from Jupiter?