March, Dictionary of the Bible.

Ephesus. ―The principal city of the Iconium confederacy on the western coast of Asia Minor, nearly opposite the island of Samos. It is remarkable as one of the principal scenes of St. Paul’s labors. We have also the Church of Ephesus mentioned in Revelation.
Ephesians (epistle to the). ―One of the epistles written by St. Paul during his captivity. On the occasion of St. Paul’s visit to Ephesus “so mightily grew the Word of God” that numbers were converted. “Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men, and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.” What a contrast to many who bear the name of Christ in the present day, who will go to places where the company profess to have to do with evil spirits, and others who make no scruple of selling books they know to be contrary to the Word of God, and, when they are exhorted to sell or circulate only such as rightly divide the Word of Truth, they reply that “a bookseller must get anything for which he is asked.” Yea, they even quote Scripture when young Christians have their consciences exercised, and say, “Let every man wherein he is called therein abide; “omitting the end of the verse, with God.” This unsound reasoning would have justified any of the converts at Ephesus, who were employed to make shrines for the goddess Diana, to have continued their unholy calling, and thus mock God, who they professed sent His Son to deliver them from this present evil world.