Ephesus was the capital of Lesser Asia, and celebrated for the temple
of Diana, to which the most part of the people of the East went
frequently to worship. But St. Paul having preached the Gospel there,
for two years the first time and afterwards for about a year, converted
many. He wrote this Epistle to them when he was a prisoner in Rome; and
sent it by Tychicus. He admonishes them to hold firmly the faith which
they had received and warns them, and also those of the neighbouring
cities, against the sophistry of philosophers and doctrine of false
teachers who were come among them. The matters of faith contained in
this Epistle are exceedingly sublime, and consequently very difficult
to be understood. It was written about twenty-nine years after our
Lord’s Ascension.