Verse 31
Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.
Alas, Paul's warning was not properly heeded.
From the Epistles of St. John, written from Ephesus, we learn that the Ephesian heresies were of the Gnostic and Docetic types. St. John's chief opponent at Ephesus was Cerinthus, who taught a Jewish form of Gnosticism.[23]
By the time of the writing of Revelation, the Ephesians had "fallen" from their first love, and were in a spiritual condition leading to the eventual removal of their candlestick.
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