Since no one can [really] say anything against these things, just calm down and do not do anything foolish.
When the town clerk had quieted down the crowd, he said, “You people of Ephesus, who among you does not know that the city of Ephesus is caretaker of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell down from the sky?
For you have brought these men here --- [men] who have neither desecrated our temple nor defamed our goddess.
treacherous [i.e., betrayers], reckless, conceited, [and] lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.