he commends the Ephesians in 2:2–3 (“I know your works …”) include the fact that they hate the “works” of the Nicolaitans. The additional commendation of 2:6 reveals even further the depth of the Ephesian church’s preoccupation with orthodoxy. Compared to the earlier descriptions of their response to those advocating falsehoods, their passion for the truth comes out in the more intense language of the verbs used here. Not only were the believers in Ephesus “not able to endure” wicked people and actively