Ἔφεσος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=Ἐφέσου, ἡ, [[Ephesus]], a [[maritime]] [[city]] of [[Asia]] Minor, [[capital]] of [[Ionia]] and, [[under]] the Romans of [[proconsular]] [[Asia]] ([[see]] [[Ἀσία]]), [[situated]] on the Icarian Sea [[between]] [[Smyrna]] and [[Miletus]]. Its [[chief]] splendor and [[renown]] came from the [[temple]] of [[Artemis]], [[which]] [[was]] reckoned [[one]] of the wonders of the [[world]]. It [[was]] burned down 356 B.C.> by Herostratus, rebuilt at the [[common]] [[expense]] of [[Greece]] [[under]] the [[supervision]] of Deinocrates ([[Pausanias]], 7,2, 6f; Livy 1,45; Pliny, h. n. 5,29 (31); 36,14 (21)), and in the [[middle]] of the [[third]] [[century]] [[after]] Christ [[utterly]] destroyed by the [[Goths]]. At [[Ephesus]] the [[apostle]] Paul founded a [[very]] [[flourishing]] [[church]], to [[which]] [[great]] [[praise]] is awarded in ἐν Ἐφέσῳ is omitted by the Sinaiticus [[manuscript]] and [[other]] [[ancient]] authorities (bracketed by T WH Tr marginal [[reading]]; [[see]] WH s Appendix at the [[passage]]; B. D. American edition [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Ephesians, Epistle to the Ephesians, The Epistle to the)); G L T Tr WH) Revelation 2:1>. Cf. Zimmermann, [[Ephesus]] im 1. christl. Jahrh., Jena 1874; (Wood, Discoveries at [[Ephesus]] (1877)).