A. “After the tumult had ceased, Paul called to him the disciples, and bade them farewell, and departed to go into Macedonia.” Thus ended the long-continued labors of the apostle in Ephesus. The “great and effectual door,” which he saw open before him but a few weeks previous, had now been suddenly closed; and the “many adversaries,” for the noble purpose of resisting whom he had resolved to remain in Ephesus till Pentecost, had prevailed against him.