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see, for instance, Stewart Perowne, The Journeys of St. Paul (New York: World, 1973), p. 72.

The other wonders were the Mausoleum of Halicarnassos, the Pyramids of Egypt, the Colossus of Rhodes, the hanging gardens of Babylon, the lighthouse of Pharos at Alexandria and Phidias’s statue of Zesus in the Temple of Olympia.

Detailed descriptions in English of the Ephesus excavations are available in Ekrem Akurgal’s Ancient Civilizations and Ruins of Turkey (Istanbul: Haset Kitabevi, 3rd ed. 1973), pp. 142–171 or in Baedeker’s Turkish Coast (Norwich, England: Jarrold & Sons, Ltd., revised 1987), pp.113–128.

While Paul was at Corinth, a few of these wineshops aligned behind the South Stoa had been converted to administrative offices. Perhaps the city fathers were making a conscious effort to move Corinth’s “red-light” district away from the city center in order to improve its image.

An inscription at Delphi dates to the summer or fall of 51 A.D., the arrival at Corinth of Lucius Junius Gallio as proconsul. Since Paul was brought before Gallio (Acts 18:12–17) near the end of his 18-month stay in Corinth (Acts 18:11 & 18:18), he must have arrived in Corinth since sometime late in A.D. 49 or early 50 and stayed through the summer of 51.

The details of Luke’s account may not be accurate; they have been viewed suspiciously by a number of recent scholars. But most accept the general picture that emerges from Acts.

Vasari, Lives, vol. 3, pp. 161–162.

Salmi Mario, The Complete Works of Michelangelo (New York: Renal and Comp, 1967) p. 209.

Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, vol. 4, tr. A.B. Hinds (London: Everyman’s Library, 1866), p. 100.