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- the third ecumenical council in 431 which declared Mary as mother of God and condemned Pelagius
- an ancient Greek city on the western shore of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; site of the Temple of Artemis; was a major trading center and played an important role in early Christianity
How To Use Ephesus In A Sentence
- Latrocinium of Ephesus in 449, Timothy at the Council of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- It didn't quite rank with Saint Paul's letters from Ephesus, but Tammy Faye Bakker sent a whopper of an epistle from Florida last week. Breaking Away
- Smyrna -- in Ionia, a little to the north of Ephesus. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- Finally, upstage right a cluster of small, close-set houses like a typical Mediterranean village represents Ephesus.
- She tripped over a marble fragment and hit another in the Agora of Ephesus, the proverbially wealthy Ionic city on the Cayster River in Western Turkey.
- For example, Paul reminded the elders of the church of Ephesus of one saying of Jesus.
- Antipholus of Ephesus, finally obtaining the ransom money he sent for, offers to pay it to redeem Egeon, but the Duke reprieves the old man without payment.
- And when he died in Ephesus, Diogeiton concealed his death from his daughter, and took the documents which he had left sealed, claiming that he must collect by these papers the money lent out on bottomry. The Orations of Lysias
- He returned briefly to Ephesus in 1883, without, however, achieving any significant results.
- The Nestorians took their name from Nestorius, the bishop of Constantinople sacked from office by the Council of Ephesus in 431 for maintaining that the human and divine natures of Christ were not united in one person. The Chinese are Coming
