Let none therefore deceive you, and indeed you Praise of the Ephesians have not been deceived, but belong wholly to God. For since no strife is fixed among you which might torture you, you do indeed live according to God. I am dedicated Lit. The refuse of : the word was used of criminals and others whose death was regarded as a piacular sacrifice, and so it came to mean a sacrifice of this kind. Ultimately it lost its meaning so far as to become merely a form of epistolary politeness. and devoted to you Ephesians, and your Church, which is famous to eternity.