time of his last contact with her leaders.1 Nor does the message from Christ in any way belittle their concern for purity and soundness; would that all the Lord’s people were keen-sighted enough to know when and how to say with the Psalmist (Ps. 139:21), ‘Do I not hate them that hate thee, O Lord?’ But in her keenness for the truth, the church at Ephesus has lost her love, ‘the one quality without which all others are worthless’.2 It is noteworthy that only in the first and last of the seven