So because these facts are indisputable, you must keep quiet and not do anything reckless.
for they aroused his temper, and he spoke rashly.
The one who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.
Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?
After the city secretary quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image that fell from heaven?
For you have brought these men here who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.