Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
He that is slow to wrath 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.
And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth 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 ye have brought hither 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;